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by it3 coagulation is developed. Human blood speedily breaks up into a 
“ small-pattern ” net- work ; tbe blood of other animals (calves, pigs, etc.) 
takes a longer time, and makes a large pattern; but the blood of every 
animal seems to form a characteristic “ picture.’ 7 Dr. Day has examined 
the blood of calves, pigs, sheep, rabbits, ducks, hens, several kinds of fishes, 
etc., as well as that of man, and has found the results to be trustworthy and 
constant. 
A Medical College for Women has, according to the “New York Medical 
Journal” for November, been organised in Chicago, 111., with a faculty of 
no less than fifteen professors. We pity the girls if they are expected to 
undergo the infliction of a full course of lectures from each of the fifteen. 
Our Chicago brethren must have singular ideas about the meaning of titles, 
lor one of the incumbents is announced as “ Professor Emeritus ” — and this 
in an institution that as yet has no existence. 
Food for Troops. — Dr. Dingier gives an account of a new Prussian method. 
It appears that a Berlin cook, named Grunberg, has recently discovered a 
process by which a preparation of peas may be made so as to keep without 
becoming sour, and the Prussian Government has bought the secret of this 
process from the inventor, for a sum of 5,555/. The Prussian War Office 
has created an establishment, at Berlin, capable of producing daily 75,000 
sausages made of this preparation, which consists of a mixture of bacon, 
peculiarly prepared pea flour, onions, and other ingredients, inclusive of salt. 
The sausages are sent away packed in boxes containing from 100 to 600, 
weighing 1 lb. each, which are destined as food for the armies, and only 
requiring to be boiled in water for a very short time to be ready for the use 
of the soldiers. The daily ration of each is 1 lb., a quantity quite suffi- 
cient for each man. This establishment, only working for the armies, costs 
daily about 6,000/. 
Relations of Consciousness and Seat of Sensation . — A very able paper is pub- 
ished on this subject in the November number of the “Journal of Anatomy ” 
by Dr. Cleland, of Queen’s College, Galway. We can only give the follow- 
ing abstract, and hope the subject will be intelligible to our medical readers. 
(1) The irritation of a nerve of common sensation throw's the nerve into 
the impressed condition, and as soon as that condition is continued to the 
brain, the mind recognises the irritation at the site where it is applied, in 
j the form of sense of touch, temperature, or pain, according to its character. 
I Over-intensity of the impressed condition may also itself be recognised in the 
form of pain. (2) Nerves of special sense differ from those of common 
sensation both in the circumstance that the apparatus at their extremities 
is affected by irritations of a different kind from those which affect other 
nerves, and in their irritation being recognised in the form of the special 
sense to which they are devoted. (3) By the impressed condition continued 
( from the brain to the distribution of a motor nerve not only is a stimulus 
communicated to the muscles and applied to the nerve, but muscular sense 
is given ; and, the consciousness being brought into direct communication 
with the part, the will is enabled to regulate the position of the part and 
the degree of muscular energy with which it is maintained. But a motor 
nerve differs from sensory nerves of all sorts in the fact that irritation of it 
does not produce any sensation either of the character of common sensation 
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