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could not be secured ; along the abdomen, extending from 
the xiphoid appendix to, and including the prepuce, a consid¬ 
erable oedematous swelling ; the sheath was immensely en¬ 
larged. Small amounts of blood drawn from the jugularis 
and microscopically examined, did not contain a superabun¬ 
dance of white corpuscles. The red variety of these, how¬ 
ever, appeared paler, longer, and indented by numerous 
fossae. Prognosis unfavorable; therapy, ferrum and digitalis. 
Death overtook the patient on the third day. The section 
revealed the blood vessels only partially dilated, and occu¬ 
pied by a watery quality of blood. All the serous membranes 
were characterized by ecchymotic points—the pericardium 
being especially so. The cardiac muscle itself was tender, 
pale and brittle; muscular portion of the general anatomy 
also possessed this quality to some degree. Upon the other 
organs, excepting the spleen, which was somewhat enlarged, 
nothing noteworthy w-as found.— Berl. Th. Woch. 
INHERITANCE OF RABIES IMMUNITY. 
The investigations relative to the transmission of immu¬ 
nity to certain diseases from the parent to the offspring, have 
been conducted upon two different lines of procedure. 
Firstly , with respect to the germinal transmission, i. e., 
either through the spermatozoa or the ovulum. 
Secondly , as to the result of sanguinary and nutritious in¬ 
terchanges between the mother and foetus of a natural immu¬ 
nity, or that induced by vaccination. 
It has been determined that exemption may be conveyed 
by the immunized female to its young through the fluids 
passing from the maternal to the foetal body. Experiments 
upon the germinal transmission through the sexual organ¬ 
isms have terminated negatively. Ehrlich, who has probed 
this question accurately, does not believe the egg or the 
semen capable of transplanting—in the true meaning of the 
word—the freedom from disease. 
The authors (Prof. Guido Tizzoni and Dr. Eugenio Cen- 
tami) have had their observations directed to the germinal 
