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Good accounts of Fraser's and Calmette's work 

 are given by Dr Stone in the Boston Medical and 

 Surgical Journal, 7th April 1898, and by Staff- 

 Surgeon Andrews, R.N., in the British Medical 

 Journal, 9th September 1899. For other cases, 

 see the Pioneer, 10th August 1899, the Lancet, 

 25th November 1899, and the British Medical 

 Journal, 23rd December 1899. In one of these 

 cases, recorded by Dr Rennie, the patient was, 

 literally, at the point of death, but recovered after 

 the serum had been injected. Two cases have also 

 been recorded of cobra-bite during work in the 

 laboratory : both of them recovered after injection. 

 " Every Government or private dispensary," says 

 Surgeon Beveridge, ' ' should be supplied with 

 antivenene, which is certainly the best remedy for 

 snake-bite available." The cases are few at pre- 

 sent ; but it does not appear that the treatment 

 has failed in any case ; and, with a new remedy of 

 this kind, it is fairly certain that failures would be 

 published. 



From all these instances in physiology, patho- 

 logy, bacteriology, and therapeutics, we come to 

 consider the Act relating to experiments on animals 

 in the United Kingdom. Many subjects have 

 been left out ; among them, the work of the last 

 few years on the suprarenal glands and adrenalin, 

 and Dr William Hunter's admirable work on 

 pernicious anaemia. Nothing has been said about 

 those discoveries in bacteriology that have not yet 



