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NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
TRADMISSIBILITY OF TUBERCULOSIS BY VACCINE LYMPH. 
The question of the transmissibility or non-transmissibility of 
tuberculosis by vaccine lymph was lately brought before the 
Medical Society of Hospitals, when Dr. Strauss gave an account 
of the researches made by him during the last two years, in view 
of deciding the above point. It will be recollected that, in 1881, 
M. Toussaint, in a note communicated to the Academy of Scien¬ 
ces, stated that he vaccinated a phthisical cow from a healthy 
child ; he afterward inoculated a pig and a rabbit from the vac¬ 
cine pimples of the phthisical cow, and both animals were at- , 
tacked with tuberculosis, but Koch’s bacillus was not found in the 
lymph. Dr. Strauss repeated these experiments, and he stated 
that in the space of eighteen months five phthisical patients were 
successfully re-vaccinated in his hospital wards, but no bacilli were 
found in the vaccine pimples. Inoculations from the vaccine 
lymph of phthisical patients were practiced in the anterior cham¬ 
ber of the eyes of rabbits, but they also afforded absolutely nega¬ 
tive results. These five negative cases are confirmative of the 
four cases related by M. Lothar Meyer, of Berlin; and M. Chau- 
veau, of Lyons, following in the same line of researches, arrived 
at the same negative result in twenty-two cases that he had 
observed. Dr. Vaillard stated that he had inoculated the vaccine 
lymph of certain tuberculous patients into animals, but with the 
same negative results as those obtained by Dr. Strauss. There 
would, therefore, be twenty six negative cases opposed to the only 
positive one of M. Toussaint, and Dr. Strauss considers himself 
justified in concluding that tuberculosis is not transmissible by vacci¬ 
nation. Moreover, the age of the vaccine subjects would be suf¬ 
ficient guarantee. As for heifers or calves, these are still more 
rarely tuberculous than children .—Medical Record. 
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FOREIGN.—Revue fur Thierheilkunde und Thierzucht, Revue d’Hygiene, 
Gazette Medicale, Echo Yeterinaire, Presse Veterinaire, Recueil de Medecine 
