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grass, epidermis, pollen grains, rye and potato Hour, grains of 
quartz, minute pieces of roofing tile, and bits of iron and coal.— 
Scientific American, October 11 th, 1884. 
Tuberculosis of the Eve.— The Revue Medicate , October 
18th, 1884, gives the case of a child who, eight weeks after an 
injury to the eye, showed cheesy masses on the conjunctiva near 
the external canthus. On microscopical examination they- were 
found to be tubercular infiltrations. The same journal also 
contains the following general remarks regarding ocular tuber¬ 
culosis. The eye may be invaded by tubercle either primarily or 
secondarily. Every part of the organ where vascular tissue 
occurs may become the seat of tubercle. Thus it has been found 
in the iris, choroid, conjunctiva, and once or twice primary 
tubercle has been observed in the retina. The ciliary body may 
also be invaded by primary or secondary tubercle, the latter 
usually following a tubercular granuloma of the iris. 
Fatal Lung Disease. —A Mr. J. J. Ingalls, residing near 
Dresden, in Muskingum Co., O., lost no less than thirteen cattle 
in a single day from a malignant disease of the throat. The 
matter coming to the knowledge of a local newspaper, the 
opinion was published that the malady might be the dreaded lung 
plague. But, on inquiry, I learn the facts to be, that the lot of 
steers affected were purchased last spring at Chicago, and had 
been on the same farm and doing well ever since, until about two 
weeks since this malignant inflammation of the throat suddenly 
appeared, the cattle dying in twenty-four hours from its first 
appearance. The steers were, at the time, running in the stalk 
fields. Is this another outbreak of ergotism? It certainly has 
not che slightest resemblance to pleuro-pneumonia, and I under¬ 
stand it has already disappeared. 
Do Calcareous Concretions of the Lungs contain 
Bacilli ?—The Baris correspondent of the British Medical 
Journal writes that M. D. jerine has made a series of researches 
to ascertain if the bacillus of tuberculosis is present in the 
calcareous concretions, surrounded by a zone of iuterstitial pneu¬ 
monia, often observed at the apex of the lungs of old people. 
There are different varieties of these concretions ; some are as 
