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(January). It seems that in these men the tibiae were remarkably com- 
pressed laterally, giving to transverse sections of the hone almost the form 
of a vertical antero-posterior section of a canine tooth, instead of the irregu- 
larly rhomhoidal form by which they are usually characterised. This pecu- 
liarity was first noticed by Dr. Falconer and Mr. Busk in 1863, in human 
remains procured from the Genista cave at Gibraltar, and almost coinci- 
dent^ by Professor Broca, in tibiae procured from the dolmen of Cham ant 
(Oise), and subsequently in those discovered at Montmartre by M. E. Ber- 
trand. Mr. Busk considers it in the highest degree improbable that it con- 
stitutes a race character, and still less that it can be looked upon as indica- 
tive of simian tendencies, a notion that M. Broca seems inclined to favour. 
The remains were found in a cave at Perthi Chwareu, near Corwen, with 
bones of the dog, fox, badger, pig, roe and red deer, sheep, Celtic shorthorn, 
horse, water-rat, hare, rabbit, and eagle, and in another at Cefn, near St. 
Asaph, where the tomb was remarkably divided into chambers. There 
appears to have been at least sixteen bodies, and Mr. Dawkins refers them 
to the Neolithic age. 
Influence of Quinine on Temperature . — The “ Indian Medical Gazette ” for 
Dec. 1, 1870, contains a short paper by Assistant-Surgeon Dr. Hamilton, of 
the Boyal Artillery, on this subject. It appears, says “ The Lancet,” which 
gives a short account, as the result of his experiments on an officer, aged 
forty, of spare habit of body and nervous temperament, who was the subject 
of ague, that quinine administered in ten- and five-grain doses had the effect 
of averting the paroxysms, and of reducing the temperature about 3° as 
determined by one of Cassella’s most delicate registering instruments. It 
had been previously suggested by Assistant- Surgeon Hall, also of the Boyal 
Artillery, that quinine should be administered internally and hypodermically 
in cases of insolation; and, if we remember aright, some cases illustrative of 
the apparent benefit of quinine were published by him. If it be proved 
that this alkaloid has this property of reducing the temperature, its effect 
in such cases where the blood becomes super-heated may, as Dr. Hamilton 
points out, be explained. 
A supposed Difference of Blood between Races. — Dr. B. H. Bakewell, in a 
paper in the 11 Journal of Anthropology,” January, makes a series of state- 
ments which we cannot at all accept. He says, for example, he found that 
between the blood of the flesh-eating Mussulman and the Hindoo, although 
coming from the same place, there was a marked distinction. The Hindoos’ 
blood contains a much larger number of white corpuscles ; the red corpuscles 
are smaller, less numerous, not so round in outline, the edge being some- 
times almost stellate, or serrated, whilst they never, so far as his observa- 
tions went, ran together like rouleaux of coin. Now it is well known that 
this phenomenon is described, in all books on physiology, as a characteristic 
of healthy human blood. The red corpuscles of the Hindoo, however, run 
together edge to edge, but not side to side, and thus form, under the micro- 
scope, a flat mass. This often, when the patient is weakly, or has had inter- 
mittent fever, becomes a sort of u squashy ” mass. It seems as if the weight 
of the thin glass cover had crushed the corpuscles into one flat mass, in 
which the separate corpuscles could no longer be distinguished. “In noting 
down my observations I was obliged, for brevity’s sake, to give a name to 
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