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Ac. Carbolici, 3 ij, 
Ac. Salicylici, 3xv, 
Ol. Menth. Pip., glls. x., 
M. 
A half per cent, watery solution of-this liquid will destroy 
the bacteria of diphtheria in thirty seconds ; anthrax bacilli 
are annihilated by a two per cent, solution. 
SHORT COMMUNICATIONS. 
In the pathological institute of the Berlin veterinary college, 
Dr. Wallach has discovered leaf-shaped bodies and distoma eggs 
n the lungs of equidae. He advances the suggestion, therefore, 
:hat the nodular bodies found especially in old horses at death 
ire but the remains, in many instances, of a previous distoma in¬ 
action.— Berlin. Wochen. 
Feigel reports the following for the determination of human 
ind animal blood by the agency of bile. When gall is added to 
lulverized blood, the crystals formed from the human fluid as- 
lume the form of lengthened cylinders or columns; those ob- 
ained by treating animal blood are angular four and eight-sided 
irisms.— Oestor. ungar. Centralb. 
According to Dr. Nattall, every consumptive expectorates 
rom 250,000 to 4,000,000 tubercle bacilli in twenty-four hours. 
Supposing the number of phthisical patients in Berlin to be 
!0,000 it is easily comprehensible that the hygienist should 
>e aroused to the menace offered by these 100,000,000,000 mi- 
robes daily brought into contact with the outer world. In this 
alculation the spores, which are still more numerous, are left en- 
irely out of consideration.— Deutsch. Med. Wochenschr. 
A new stable morphine solution (1:30) is made as follows: 
Take of morph, hydrochl. 3 j, dissolve in 3 v of alcohol, 3 x gly- 
erinum, and water sufficient to make up to 3 xxx, after to be 
iltered. It is asserted of this compound that it will remain in- 
act for months.— Rundsch. f Pharmac . 
