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ANALYSTS OF CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 
During the recent epidemic of smallpox in London, sul¬ 
phurous acid has been largely used by the local authorities 
for disinfecting the rooms in which patients have been nursed. 
The room is closed up, and so much sulphur burnt within it as 
to render the air of the apartment quite irrespirable. But as it 
is difficult to light and maintain the ignition of a large quan¬ 
tity of sulphur, bisulphide of carbon has been chiefly employed 
for the generation of the gas. This liquid, as is well known, 
burns readily, producing sulphurous and carbonic acid gases 
by its combustion. About a pint of this substance is placed 
in a metallic vessel within the room, and lighted before closing 
the door. 
A solution of sulphurous acid gas in alcohol has also been 
recently introduced as a convenient agent for disinfection. 
This gas is much more soluble in alcohol than it* is in water. 
The alcoholic solution now offered contains in solution 100 
times its volume of sulphurous acid gas.— Year-Book of P/iar- 
macy . 
Analysis of Continental Journals. 
By G. Fleming, M.R.C.V.S., Royal Engineers. 
STUDY ON TINEA FAVOSA IN THE DOMESTICATED 
ANIMALS. 
By M. F. Saint -Cyr, Professor at the Lyons Veterinary School. 
[Continued from p. 60.) 
IV .—New Examples of Transmission of the Favus of Animals 
to Man. 
In a communication that I had the honour of laying before 
the Medical Society of Lyons last January, I related how, in 
making experiments on Tinea in animals, I had myself con¬ 
tracted the malady, which assumed on my hand the anato¬ 
mical configuration of Herpes circinnatus . 
The following new and confirmatory facts, gathered in 
such a way that there could be no doubt either as to the 
etiology or nature of the accidents—which were carefully at¬ 
tended to by Dr. Rollet—were observed in three students 
of our school; and I had the honour of presenting one 
of these young men to the Medical Society at one of its 
meetings. 
These are the three observations : 
1. M. Maherault, third years* student at the Veterinary 
