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shaped organisms are ordinarily present in the dejections of persons suffering 
from cholera, but not in the blood, the intestinal mucous membrane, or any 
other tissue. 2. Comma-shaped organisms of closely allied morphological appearances 
are ordinarily present in different parts of the alimentary canal in health, and 
are developed in an unusual extent in certain diseases in which there is copious 
intestinal secretion ; the predominant form in any given case depending in great 
measure on the nature of such secretion. 3. The comma-shaped bacilli ordinarily 
found in cholera do not induce that disease in the lower animals, and there 
are no real grounds for assuming that they do so in man. 4. The committee 
expressed its “ conviction that sanitary measures in their true sense, and sanitary 
measures alone, are the only trustworthy means to prevent outbreaks of the 
disease, and to restrain its spread and mitigate its severity when it is prevalent/' 
Our contemporary adds the following observations made by Sir William Gull 
at the second meeting of the committee. " It was/* he said, <e becoming more 
and more probable that sanitary measures might destroy the conditions upon 
which the existence and spread of the cholera poison depended 
In other words, we may, in fact, be able to defend ourselves against the 
invasion of cholera before science has discovered the essential cause of the 
disease/' 
A pexsiox of £300 per annum has been offered to Professor Huxley in 
recognition of his eminent scientific services. 
Chixaieeh are being systematically boycotted in every town on the Pacific 
Coast. Opium “ joints” have increased so fast in the Eastern cities that general 
alarm is felt." 
The people of Havre, as a mark of gratitude for his serviees, and a contri- 
bution towards the expenses of his scientific investigations, have voted AT. 
Pasteur a donation of £1000. 
Chaeles D. Bead let, a Chicago physician, has become insane by the use of 
the new anaesthetic cocaine, and has physically ruined his wife and five children 
by experiments with the drug. 
A Uxtvebsity for women, endowed by private funds, has been opened at 
St. Petersburg, with a laboratory for chemistry and a study furnished with all 
the appliances necessary for the pursuit of the physical sciences. 
The death is announced in London of Aliss F. Helen Prideaux, ALB., from 
diphtheria, after a week of severe illness. Aliss Prideaux was one of the most 
distinguished of the women who have graduated in medicine at the University 
of London. 
As is well known, ammon. aromat., when added to codide, prevents nasal 
catarrh, and enables the codide to be borne by patients who could not other- 
wise take it. We (Bull. Gen. de Therapeut) believe we owe this suggestion 
to Sir James Paget. Dr. Aubert now recommends belladonna in the form of 
pills in dose of ten centigrammes. Aubert bases his recommendation of this 
remedy on the well-known physiological effect of belladonna. 
A sew basis for ointments has recently been described by Dr. Oscar Lie- 
brich in a paper read before the Berlin Aledical Society. To this basis the 
name of 44 Lanolin" has been given. It is stated to be a mixture of cholesterin 
fat (from tissues containing keratin, such as sheep’s wool in particular) and 
water. The pure cholesterin fat has the advantages of being capable of taking 
up its own bulk of water, and of being readily absorbed by the skin. It is 
also not readily decomposed. It is, in fact, the natural fat of the skin, and 
of epidermic tissues generally, such as hard hoofs of horses, feathers, Ac., 
from all of which it is obtained. From glycerine fats it is distinguished by 
