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FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS. 
New York, two of them proving fatal. The reappearance 
of this dreaded disease has caused considerable alarm in 
that city. 
The Medical Circular, of March 10th, also states that six 
persons in one family had died from eating trichinized pork 
in the canton of Tessin, Switzerland. 
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Proposed International Work on Parasites.— 
Professor Hallier, of Jena, has made arrangements with 
some excellent workers^^ to publish a journal of parasitology, 
a subject of much importance, whose further study is likely 
to be of great value to the science and practice of medicine in 
the future. The journal will admit papers that treat, not 
only of the parasites of man and animals, but of plants, as 
well as 'of the diseases and epidemics connected with or de¬ 
pendent upon parasites. Contributors are to have their 
papers printed in their own language. The journal is to 
appear every two months, each part consisting of eighteen 
or twenty sheets, and it will be illustrated with plates.— 
Lancet. 
Alleged Non-absorption by the Skin. —Professor 
Scoutetten, of Metz, has written to the French Academy of 
Medicine on the subject of cutaneous absorption. He main¬ 
tains that Professor Tardieu is wrong in attributing a disease 
of the skin he spoke of to red stockings dyed with coraline; 
for that the skin, when healthy, does not absorb ; and that 
no bath whatever can have any effect on it. The doctor is 
so positive on this subject that he offers himself to be expe¬ 
rimented on, by entering any bath containing poisonous 
substances, whether mineral or vegetable, provided they have 
no corrosive qualities. He further offers to pay a fine, of an 
amount to be fixed by the Academy, if he be wrong; and 
declares himself ready to come to Paris at any time to place 
himself at the Academy^s disposal for this purpose. 
Live Stock in Ireland. —The agricultural statistics of 
Ireland, which have just been issued, show a decrease in the 
number of live stock as compared with 1867 as follows:— 
OF horses, 1216; of cattle, 87,451 ; of sheep, 13,075; and of 
pigs, no less than 372,748. 
Endurance of Cold by Horses. —The Aheille Medicale 
contains the following curious information about the power 
of endurance of cold by horses. On the 2nd of January, 
1846, an expeditionary column operating in the mountains of 
Bou-Taleb, Algeria, started for Setif with mild and beautiful 
