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PHTHISIS IN MAN AND IN ANIMALS. 
a journal, which I have had the gratification of seeing. It consists 
of three volumes of sketches and remarks. He passed through 
Paris and Lyons, and entered Italy by way of Genoa. Here he 
was struck by the contrast between streets as narrow as ‘ Black- 
ford Wynd’ and the gorgeous architecture which flanks them. 
His hotel had once been a palace ; and as he sat on a velvet 
cushion in an arm-chair of gold, while a fountain played from a 
marble lion, and the too vivid light was moderated by orange- 
trees and silk curtains, he felt that he was in Genoa la super ba ! 
“ He enjoyed what he called a day of Raphael in the Vatican, 
and was worthy of enjoying it. His piercing eye detected, as 
we might expect, some errors in the anatomy of Raphael’s draw- 
ings. ‘ But do not think of that,’ he adds, ‘ but of the fine 
comprehension of nature, the feeling and understanding of the 
human family. Man appears a superb creature in the Vatican.’ 
“ On the last day which he spent in Rome he stood by the 
Palace of the Csesars, from which he took his sketch of the 
Coliseum. ‘ It is a place,’ he says, 6 to raise strange and so- 
lemn thoughts.’ A mountain has been formed there by ruins, 
now covered with vineyards and cultivated fields. 4 Pillars and 
entablatures make the way uneven, and the acanthus is growing 
by the side of the broken capital, on which it is chiselled.’ 
“ So much inventive genius and such indefatigable industry 
are rarely united in the same person ; and when we add the 
warmth of his friendship, and, among his lesser qualities, the 
exquisite refinement of his taste, the combination is not often to 
be paralleled. He had some of the irritability that so often ac- 
companies genius ; yet, take him as he was, he has left a blank 
not easily filled up, either in the republic of science or the circle 
of his friends.” 
Medical Gazette. 
COMPARATIVE FREQUENCY OF PHTHISIS IN MAN 
AND IN ANIMALS. 
M. Rayer lately read a very elaborate and interesting paper, 
at the Academy of Sciences, entitled, “ Fragment of a compara- 
tive Study of Phthisis Pulmonalis in Man and in Animals.” 
The following are his conclusions : — 
1. Tuberculous phthisis is of all chronic diseases the most 
common both among men and animals. 
2. In man and other mammiferous animals, tuberculous matter 
