LIGHT AS A BACTERICIDE. 
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have an opportunity to witness when the patient now at Alfort 
is destroyed. 
The history of this case is as follows : He had no other 
symptoms of glanders than that of a peculiar enlargement of 
one of the maxillary glands. Not painful, quite large, some¬ 
what bosselated. Submitted by veterinarians to three succes¬ 
sive malleinations, he came out immune at every one. The 
gland was extracted, and with it inoculations were made, which 
were also negative. Hvidently the horse was free from glanders. 
He was then conducted to Alfort for examination and when 
submitted to the test of tuberculine reacted. He is now affected 
with tuberculosis, and will soon be destroyed. 
Previous to the day of malleine and tuberculine, the diao-- 
nosis could not have been positively established. 
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The 'Ireatment of Purpura by Serotherapy has 
made great progress in France, and the successes that are 
recorded have a tendency to prove beyond doubt that all the 
old ideas of the nature of the disease and the numberless forms 
of treatment that were recommended must be abandoned to 
make room exclusively for the new treatment by the serum. 
In the United States, a few practitioners have already recorded 
the trials that they have made, the results have generally been 
satisfactory, and from what we hear and have seen here we can 
give our friends in America the advice to lay the strychnia, 
the coffee, the alkalies, the mineral tonics, etc., aside to have 
recourse to the serum treatment. 
[ Translated from Le Tetjips. ] 
LIGHT AS A BACTERICIDE—PHOTOTHERAPY. 
By H. deVarigny, Paris, France 
“ No one fears light,” said Schiller, “ except criminals and 
bad spirits.” It is acknowledged that criminals are afraid of 
broad daylight, and that spirits like darkness ; even those that 
are familiar with spiritualists prefer darkness, for reasons that 
