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Facts and Observations. 
Virulent Corpuscles. —M. Chauveau^ the indefatigable 
veterinary pathologist, has just placed before the Academy of 
Sciences of Paris a paper wherein he gives full details of the 
manipulations by which he succeeds in separating virulent 
corpuscles from the serum, or menstruum, in which they 
float. He succeeded in isolating such corpuscles from the 
pus of a pulmonary abscess affecting a horse suffering from 
glanders. The author transferred the corpuscles to distilled 
water, inoculated the latter to two animals, and they soon 
perished with glanders. It would be worth trying whether 
carbolic acid would not destroy the activity of the corpus¬ 
cles.— The Lancet. 
Creasote in Typhoid Fever. —It seems now’ settled 
that carbolic acid, and, in general, the results of the destruc¬ 
tive distillation of wood or tar, shall be tried in all com¬ 
plaints. We are now doing, to a certain extent, what Raspail 
loudly advocated. He was a learned chemist, but did not 
belong to the profession, and conceived that animalcules 
w^ere the cause of all maladies; hence he proposed a uni¬ 
versal panacea in the shape of camphor. The working classes 
in France still sw-ear by Raspail. Now w'e find Dr. Pecho- 
lier, of Montpelier, using creasote in typhoid fever. More 
than sixty patients were thus treated with apparent success, 
and the author considers that with creasote the contagious 
influence is lessened.— Ibid. 
Official Issue of the New’ Nomenclature of 
Diseases. —We understand that arrangements are being 
made at Her Majesty’s Stationery Office for the distribution 
of eopies of the new ^‘Nomenclature of Diseases,^^ to every 
legally qualified member of the medical profession in the 
kingdom.— Ibid. 
Potted Beef. —A man of the name of George Pindy, a 
dealer in tripe and potted ! beef at Birkenhead, has just 
been sentenced to six w’eeks^ imprisonment and hard labour 
for having in his possession meat unfit for human food.— 
Medical Times. 
London Corpse Dust. —At the meeting of the Aca- 
demie des Sciences it was stated that M. Freycinet, a mining 
engineer, in his w’ork ~on Sepulture in its ^Relation to Public 
Healthy declares as a result of the calculations he has made 
of the soil of London that it contains .'>0,000,000 kilo¬ 
grammes of human remains.— Ibid. 
