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1S83.] 
We copy the subjoined paragraph from the “ Medical Press 
and Circular,” as showing how “ public opinion ” is manufac- 
tured : — 
“ Mr. Jesse, who describes himself as c Honorary Secretary, 
Society Abolition Vivisection,’ has been fruitlessly wasting the 
proceeds of his constant appeal for funds in widespread publica- 
tion of one of our recent notes from abroad in which the details 
of Biondi’s experiments on ablation of the lungs are given. By 
a curious oversight which would scarcely have been expected in 
an official so ingenious as the ‘ Hon. Sec., &c.,’ Mr. Jesse has 
let us into the secret of his endeavours to obtain weight. Within 
a few days no less than four separate slips of Mr. Jesse’s adver- 
tisements of the ‘ Medical Press ’ have reached the office of that 
paper, each posted from a different town, the intention doubtless 
being to delude us into the idea that they were forwarded by 
indignant readers. But, alas ! for the success of the plot, in all 
cases the extract has been forwarded as sent out by the printer 
in proof slips, Mr. Jesse having, in his hurry to overwhelm, for- 
gotten to cut the edges round, and so ensure its being taken for 
a veritable newspaper cutting. We have been much amused by 
the proceeding, and while candidly admitting that we should 
equally as readily have penetrated any other little device of the 
kind, we yet offer the ‘ Society Abolition Vivisection ’ our sym- 
pathy in its failure to arouse more than good-humoured contempt 
of its weakness.” 
Judging from the current number of “ Light ” it would almost 
seem as if Spiritualism was beginning to make amicable ap- 
proaches to Astrology and Mormonism ! 
We are inexpressibly disgusted at the following advertise- 
ment: — “Wanted, kingfishers, clean and fresh-killed; any 
quantity.” We do not care to say what we wish for the adver- 
tiser, or for the paper which inserted his advertisement. 
P. Blaserna “ Accadem. dei Lincei ”) maintains that the tem- 
perature of the glacial epoch was not necessary, and that glaciers 
belong to a time when the average temperature of Europe was 
about 2° C. higher than the present. 
A medical contemporary describes a poisoning case due to the 
consumption of tinned salmon. “ The tin in which the fish had 
been imported was denuded of its inner covering in many places, 
nitrate of tin being formed.” Whence the necessary nitric 
acid ? 
The French Commission of Inquiry on the permissibility of 
the use of salicylic acid in preserving articles of food has 
reported against the practice, the drug accumulating in the 
human system. 
We learn that Dr. Tanner, known for his fasting perform- 
ances, has been arrested for practising with a bogus diploma. 
