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is thus demonstrated to be an established property of that fluid. 
No traces of the destroyed bacilli can be found in the ele¬ 
ments of the blood, in either the red or the white corpuscles.— 
Deutsch Med. Woch. 
OF THE POWER OF MICROBES TO ACCOMMODATE THEMSELVES 
TO ANTISEPTIC MEDIA. 
By G. Kossiakoff. 
The subjects of the experiments which produced the results 
which are here referred to, are the anthrax bacteridse, the tyro- 
thrix scaber, bacillus subtilis, and tyrothrix tenuis-—the antiseptic 
media employed in the tests being solutions of borax, boracic 
acid and corrosive sublimate. The following conclusions are 
held to be justified : 
Low organisms may be <k acclimated ” by exposure to the 
action of an antiseptic solution in doses gradually increased, and 
when thus acclimated they may acquire the faculty of living and 
glowing in the same solution which in the absence of the process 
of acclimatization would prevent their development. But this 
power or faculty of resistance or accommodation varies in differ¬ 
ent micro-organisms. 
The numbers stated as measuring the power of accommoda¬ 
tion, and fixing the limit beyond which the growth of. the microbes 
cannot be sustained, cannot be considered as fixing the maximum 
rule within the same conditions as those under which the experi¬ 
ments were originally made, since they do not prove that, in 
other conditions more favorable to their acclimatization, the 
micro-organisms might not be able to offer still more effectual re¬ 
sistance to the action of antiseptics .—Annales de Pasteur. 
A NEW GASIFORM BACILLUS-A HUMAN PARASITE. 
By Arloing. 
The author has examined the reddish, sanious liquid, mixed 
with sundry gases, obtained through the puncture of a wounded 
eye. The patient seemed to be free from any general disturb¬ 
ance, and the enucleation of the eye was perfectly successful. 
