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EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY. 
largest share towards furnishing conjunctive tissue and muscular 
fibre to the complete cicatrix. The antiseptic treatment offers a 
better guarantee for the success of the reparative process than all 
other means now known .—Revue des Sciences Med. 
EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY, 
ON THE TRANSMISSION OF PARASITIC ORGANISMS THROUGH 
HEREDITY. 
By Max Wolff. 
The author has studied the question of the passage -of bac- 
terias from the mother to the foetus, with the microbes of an¬ 
thrax, vaccinia, variola and tuberculosis, and he refuses to sanc¬ 
tion the theory. 
Foetuses of guinea-pigs and of rabbits whose mothers had been 
inoculated with the bacteridie of anthrax, were not infected, the 
microscope or various cultures failing to show the presence of the 
bacteridie. In vaccinia he has vaccinated pregnant women, and 
when the vaccine had taken effect has vaccinated the child sev 
eral days after birth. The result was a characteristic eruption. 
For variola, he shows that it is only in a few rare cases that the 
children of variolous mothers are born with the variolic eruptions. 
And for tuberculosis he has inoculated female animals both before 
and during pregnancy, and never met with tuberculous products. 
He considers, therefore, that for these diseases, though transmis¬ 
sion may be possible, it is exceedingly rare, and that in man, es¬ 
pecially in tuberculosis, the child is infected only after birth, 
when the infection could take place, not only through the respir¬ 
atory passages, but also through cutaneous lesions, or the erup¬ 
tions so common in children.— Rev. des Scien. Med. 
BACTERIES IN MILK. 
By Loefflee. 
Paste nr had already observed that in boiled milk, in which 
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the alkaline reaction still exists, caseine can be precipitated, and 
