ELECTION OF SURGEON TO QUEEN’s COLLEGE. 699 
vernments of Voroneje and Kocersk, in Russia, it is custom- 
ary to give dogs half a beetle in powder, from time to time, 
mixed with bread-crumbs, as a preservative against that 
disease ; and that the Russians affirm that there are persons 
who cure hydrophobia radically by means of the fresh juice 
of a certain plant, which is not named. 
CATTLE EPIZOOTIC AT TRIPOLI. 
The accounts received from Tripoli state that the Eng- 
lish consul had caused to be posted up an order from Con- 
stantinople, allowing the export of cattle. The government 
of the Bey, however, has refused to obey this order, in con- 
sequence of the scarcity occasioned by the ravages of the 
epizootic disease and the consequent wants of the country. 
ELECTION OP MR. J. S. GAMGEE AS SURGEON TO THE 
QUEEN’S COLLEGE, BIRMINGHAM. 
The Council of Queen’s College, Birmingham, have acted 
upon the Memorial of the Professors. They have reconsidered 
the appointment of Surgeon to the Hospital, and at a special 
Council meeting, on the loth inst., the election of Mr. West 
was declared “null and void.” We are informed that the 
ground assigned was, that his votes had been obtained by 
premature canvass. Mr. Gamgee was elected forthwith, and 
Mr. Knowles transferred the wards formally to him in the 
presence of the authorities. On Monday he delivered the 
introductory lecture in Queen’s College. 
THE RELATIYE NUMBER OP THE RED CELLS OP THE 
BLOOD. 
MM. Andral and Gavarret, the best authorities on the 
analysis of the blood, found by numerous observations that 
the mean average of red cells was 127 parts in 104 of the 
vital fluid in healthy subjects ; in cases of confirmed anaemia 
the proportion fell to 65, or nearly one-half less than the 
healthy standard; whilst in plethoric individuals it rose to 
14 1. Becquerel and Rhodier found the average higher in 
the male than in the female, whilst early adult age seems to 
be the period when the cells attain their maximum in both 
sexes — the health being good. These corpuscles are always 
most numerous in the blood of persons of the sanguineous 
and fewest in those of the lympathic temperament. 
