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necklaces, to which its roots are applied. These, of course, 
can have but little, if any, effect, but still it is significant. 
Mrs. Lankester says :—“ At the present day necklaces are 
made of small beads carved from the root of the pseony, 
and sold in respectable chemists’ shops, to be worn around 
the necks of young children when cutting their teeth as 
* anodyne necklaces.’ ” “ Can we be severe on the follies 
of our ancestors,” she remarks, “ when such superstitions 
linger in our own day ?” 
The fact is that the series of plants we have now ex¬ 
amined possesses such active individuals that there is no 
wonder that at one time they should have been much 
employed in some empirical form, and it is perhaps whole¬ 
some that the dread inspired by their use should have 
caused their disuse, except in the innocent form just de¬ 
scribed. 
Pathological ContributionSo 
CATTLE PLAGUE. 
In the Russian empire cattle-plague appears to be still 
very prevalent in the Governments bordering on Austria and 
Germany, and in those adjoining the Black and Baltic Seas. 
In the dominions of Austria the cattle-plague has 
recently appeared in the district of Klisebo, in Dalmatia; 
otherwise Austria-Hungary was reported to be free from 
that disease on the 25th of August last. 
PLEUROPNEUMONIA. 
This disease has diminished to a considerable extent in 
the Kingdom of the Netherlands, only five cases having 
been reported during the four weeks ending the 6th of Sep¬ 
tember of this year in comparison with fifty-four cases in the 
corresponding period of the year 1878. 
