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ANTIDOTE EOR RATTLE-SNAKE POISON. 
Bibron is said to be an antidote for the poison of the 
rattle-snake. M. de Vesey has made experiments to test 
the correctness of Dr. Hammond’s observations, and the 
results are quite confirmatory of them. Seventeen experi- 
ments were made upon three dogs with seventeen different 
serpents, and in each case the antidote was successful. — 
American Journal of Science . 
A NEW ANESTHETIC— ACETONE. 
M. Bechamp announces a new anaesthetic. The acetone 
is much less disagreeable than amylene, and its action is 
more rapid but less durable. It acts upon rabbits in twenty 
seconds, and its prolonged inspiration does not appear to 
have any deadly influence on these animals. — American 
Journal of Science. 
EXTRAORDINARY QUARANTINE EOR HYDROPHOBIA. : 
The Lunatic Asylum at Warsaw receives every year a 
certain number of persons who have been bitten by dogs 
suspected of being mad, during July and August. The 
number of these individuals sent there by the authorities on 
the ground of possible development of hydrophobia, amounts 
sometimes to as many as twenty. They are placed under 
observation in cells situated in a special part of the asylum, 
during forty days, and if by that time they have not pre- 
sented any alarming symptom, they may quit the asylum 
armed with a medical certificate. Dr. Plaskousky, sent to 
France recently for the purpose of studying the position of 
the question of insanity there, has been making inquiries 
whether similar dispositions did not prevail in the French 
asylums, and thus has made known this singular arrange- 
ment. The mischievous effect upon the morale of this 
curious description of quarantine, and the assemblage of 
these unfortunate beings in expectation of an attack of so 
frightful a disease, may be easily imagined. — Medical Times. 
