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Centrale, and in which he claimed to have obtained some great 
successes and rapid recoveries, even in some very severe cases, 
principally by the application of packs of crushed ice on the 
sides of the chest ? This is probably the treatment by the cold 
sheet, recommended by the Germans, I believe, in the treatment 
of pneumonia in man, and which was tried some years ago, and 
which M. Brun is trying to revive. Whether its value will be 
proved aud its introduction in our thereapeutics sanctioned 
remains yet in doubt; the number of cases upon which it has 
been tried is yet too small to justify it, and certainly at first 
thought its beneficial effects are difficult to understand. 
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Comparative Pathology—Measles. —While its conta¬ 
gion from man to man is a fact acknowledged and no longer dis- 
cus5s^, its transmission to animals has not yet been established 
in a positive manner. 
A French physician. Dr. A. Josias, in connection with Prof. 
Nocard, has recently carried out a number of experiments with 
the effect of deciding, or at least advancing, the question. The 
nasal cavities and the throat of pigs and monkeys were contam¬ 
inated with mucosities from diseased children and subcutane¬ 
ous injections of blood from those same children wei'e made in 
the abdominal region of the subjects of experiment. 
The results in pigs were all negative ; those on the mon¬ 
keys, however, were most instructive. Eight monkeys were 
experimented upon, three of them contracted measles, absolutely 
similar to that of children ; five, on the contrary, remained re¬ 
fractory. 
One of the monkeys took the disease by simple contagion, 
the others by inoculation. 
These experiments are of great interest and were the sub¬ 
ject of a special communication at the Academy of Medicine in 
Paris. They demonstrate positively that an animal can take 
measles; that monkeys are susceptible to it and that some 
species of that family are more liajle than others. 
A. E. 
