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SUNDRIES AND ITEMS. 
he had injected ordinary horse serum into four children suffering 
from non-diptheritic sore throat, and that the injections had 
produced slight febrile reaction and within a few days eruptions 
similar to those observed after injections of serum from an “im¬ 
munized” animal. The latter, therefore, and not antitoxine it¬ 
self, caused the untoward symptoms that followed the use of 
antitoxine serum. (N. Y. Medical Journal). 
ANTISTREPTOCOCCOUS SERUM. 
The Semaine medicole states that Dr. Roger, Dr. Charrin, and 
Dr. Marmorek reported at a meeting of the Paris Biological 
Society held on March 30th, that they had employed antistrepto- 
coccous serum in the treatment of cases of erysipelas and puer¬ 
peral septicaemia. Dr. Marmorek had administered an initial 
dose of ten cubic centimetres of serum, derived from horses or 
asses which had been rendered insusceptible by the inoculation 
of a very virulent culture of the streptococcus, to forty-six 
patients suffering from erysipelas, all of whom had recovered. 
Dr. Roger and Dr. Charrin had treated two cases of puerperal 
septicaemia, one case of erysipelas in a three-weeks’-old infant, 
and one case of pseudo-membranous angina with this serum, and 
the patients had recovered without complications. (Ibid). 
Two Easy and Delicate Tests for Albumin in 
URINE. —Dr. C. Fouchlos (Progress Medical) recommends two 
new tests for albumin in urine, for which he claims utmost deli¬ 
cacy and absence of any possible fallacy : 
1. Add to the suspected urine a few drops of a one per cent 
solution of corrosive sublimate ; in case of turbidity, add some 
drops of acetic acid. If the turbidity persists it is due to the 
presence of albumin. 
2. Take 100 cc. of a ten per cent solution of sulphocyanide 
of potassium, and mix with it 20 cc. of acetic acid. Add a few 
drops of this mixture to the urine. If albumin is present in 
