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in proper repair. In the Amersham case the Lord Chief 
Baron pointed out that his decision in no way depended upon 
any question of fencing, or the correlative rights and duties 
arising therefrom, so that “ Lawrence v. Jenkins” would be 
no authority. In (i Wilson v. Newberry” (L. R., 8 B. 
274), the plaintiff failed upon a technicality, and the merits 
of the case w*ere not gone into. The decision in the 
Amersham case seems to be grounded on common sense, and 
the principles enunciated in the judgment are valuable, 
because they will apply with equal force to anything, alive or 
dead, kept by a landowner upon his land, and which may 
in some way or another cause damage to his neighbour. 
INTRAVENOUS INJECTION OE MILK IN ANAEMIA. 
N. Wulfsberg has made a series of researches on animals 
on the effects of the intravenous injection of milk, recom¬ 
mended by Gaillard Thomas, as a means of preserving life 
in cases of haemorrhage and other forms of anaemia. He 
injected about 250 grammes, and examined the blood, espe¬ 
cially with a view to determine whether, as Donne stated in 
1844, the globules of milk were converted into white cor¬ 
puscles. He found that the white corpuscles undoubtedly 
increase in number, but only after having first taken up—in 
fact, eaten—the milk spheres. He w r as unable to preserve 
the life of dogs by this means ; their body weight diminished, 
and they died without obvious disease, and he found 
haemorrhagic infarcts in the lungs. He found it to be 
impossible to maintain the life of animals by subcutaneous 
injections of fresh milk as they became atrophic. If about 
’75 per cent, of the estimated weight of the blood were with¬ 
drawn from dogs they bore the intravenous injection of milk 
well; but when large quantities were introduced they rapidly 
died. The injection of milk caused the sounds of the heart, 
which were previously inaudible, to become clear and 
distinct. He thinks, however, a milk injection can never 
supply the place of an injection of blood. 
ON CERTAIN DISINFECTANTS. 
Mr. G. B. Longstaff, M.A., M.B. Oxon., and Mr. E. H. 
Hare, M.A. Oxon., M.R.C.S., report in the Sanitary Record 
a series of experiments made by them with a number of 
