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infection, and finally death of the experiment animal. The an¬ 
thrax oedema encroached upon the eyelids, thence to the face, 
ultimately reaching the neck. Strauss compares his researches 
with similar experiments which he conducted in company with 
Chambon and Menard, upon the inoculation of vaccine virus- 
through the cornea of the calf. In this instance he was also 
successful in securing a keratitis and immunity, although the 
latter developed slower than the ordinary method of vaccination. 
—Fortschritte der Me diem, No. io. 
Effect of Temperature upon Tubercle Bacillus.— 
The experiments upon the resistance offered by the bacillus tu¬ 
berculosis, as found existing in the milk of phthisis cattle is con¬ 
cisely tabulated as follows: The material used in the trial was 
confined in small glass tubes, and subjected to heat transmitted 
indirectly through a water bath. 
At a temperature of ioi° F. four hours were required to kill 
the bacillus; at 140° F. one hour; at 158° F. ten minutes; at 
176° F. five minutes; 194 0 F. two minutes; at 203° F. one 
minute. 
A temperature of 122 0 F. was insufficient, after twelve hours' 
action, to destroy the tubercle. At 1 54-4° F. the taste of milk 
becomes altered, this fact is of paramount importance, for if 
milk be heated at 149 0 F. for fifteen minutes, the dangerous 
quality of the same becomes annihilated.— Allg. Med. Cen- 
tralzbg. j8. 
JABOT. —A horse in the 49th Uhland Regiment had refused 
his morning rations. One and a half hands anterior to the 
cariuciform cartilage of the sternum a movable, hard swelling 
was situated, the size of one’s fist. 
The patient was apathetic, and vomited continously; a pain¬ 
ful cough was heard now and then, subsequent always to the 
retching movement. The case was diagnosed one of foreign 
body in the oesophagus, and the operation for its removal was 
immediately commenced. 
The swelling vanished, but returned at once the animal re- 
