ItfTERCOMMUNICABILITY OF TUBEKCULOSIS. 
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Simple regard to these two things is quite sufficient to do away, in 
almost all cases, with night-sweats. At least I have not met with a case 
in my private practice since residing in Queensland in which careful 
attention to the functions of the skin has not sufficed to remove this 
annoying and dreaded symptom. I have not been compelled, so far, 
to use any medicine in any one case to suppress the night-sweats. 
The medical director should have some experience of laryngoscopy, 
bacteriology, and microscopy. The nursing staff need only be small, 
since nurses are required but for the small number of patients who, 
on account of untoward complications, are temporarily confined to 
their beds. The duration of residence necessary in early cases to effect 
a cure will average from six weeks to six months. In very few 
instances will a longer residence be required. 
The site to be chosen for the sanatorium should possess the 
following climatic qualities: — (I) Dry atmosphere ; (2) great number 
of sunny days ; (3) freeness from dust ; (4) shelter against the pre- 
vailing winds. Finally, let us not forget to pay attention to the soil 
on which the sanatorium is to be erected. Pure, dry, and porous soil 
should be selected, with an efficient drainage. 
However, all these conditions are of very great importance, and 
require to be dealt with in separate papers. 
I cannot do better than conclude with the beautiful and true 
words of Dr. Herman Weber, in his Croonian lectures: — “There is 
nothing more baneful than the idea that phthisis is incurable. It 
shuts out all honest attempt to do everything possible, and bring every 
sacrifice to promote arrest and cure, I well remember, from my 
student’s time, when phthisis was considered almost incurable, how 
the name of the disease was withheld from patients, how depressed 
they became when they found it out, how they regarded themselves 
as doomed, and sometimes killed themselves by poison or debauchery. 
I remember also the joy amongst the younger medical generation and 
the public when a more hopeful view developed itself, and the readiness 
to submit to every sacrifice and to long expatriation, with a fair chance 
of recovery. . . * . The portions of lung which are already 
destroyed before the treatment has commenced cannot he restored, 
but experience has shown to us that life, with a fair capacity for work 
and for enjoyment, can be maintained after the loss of a good part of 
the lung, and that the remaining part, if sound, can be rendered 
capable of doing the ordinary life work of both entire lungs.” 
5. — THE INTERCOMMUNICABILITY AND PEE VALENCE OF 
HUMAN AND ANIMAL TUBERCULOSIS. 
By S. S. CAMERON , M.R.C. V.S., Melbourne Veterinary College. 
At a meeting such as this, composed of scientists who are more 
or less acquainted with the generalities and detail of the subjects that 
are being brought forward for discussion, and whose object it is to 
initiate & and obtain a more systematic and practical application in 
everyday life of ascertained scientific facts, it appears to me that the 
best results will be obtained by directing attention mainly to the way 
in which beneficial use can be made of the knowledge and information 
already at our command. Especially is this the case in regard to 
