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sequences of inoculation with virus which proved fatal to unvac¬ 
cinated animals. A vaccinated pony and a buffalo were sent to a 
village where there was an epidemic of anthrax; and though they 
were herded with the diseased cattle, and grazed on the same pas¬ 
tures, they escaped the disease. In Burmah the elephants have 
been vaccinated with equal success. At first the “ vaccine” wa s 
imported from France; but the uncertainty of obtaining it pure 
and efficacious from any one but Pasteur himself has induced the 
Indian government to fit up a laboratory for the manufacture and 
dispensing of the fluid in Bengal; and, if that is successful, other 
laboratories will be founded in other centres. Mr. J. H. B. Hal- 
len was sent, some time ago, to study in Pasteur’s laboratory; and 
the report recommends that all veterinary surgeons should go 
through such a course of instruction.— Science. 
Treatment of Parotid Fistula by the Injection of Fat 
or Oil.— Dr. Molliere, of Lyons, France, has resorted to an in¬ 
genious device, employed by experimental physiologists, in order 
to cure an external fistulous opening, associated with one lobe of 
the parotid gland. His patient was a girl of sixteen, who had 
submitted to a plastic operation. Dr. M. first dilated the duct of 
stenon, and reduced the fistulous discharge as .much as possible, 
and then resorted to the plan employed by Claude Bernard for 
the arrestation of the pancreatic secretion. For this purpose 
Claude Bernard, according to the Revue Medicate , injected melted 
tallow or butter into the pancreas by the canal of Wirsung, and, 
succeeding in this wav in destroving the functional aetivitv of the 
gland, he also demonstrated the possibility of destroying the 
functional activity of the parotid gland in a similar way. To 
utilize this principle, Dr. Molliere injected carbolized oil into the 
fistulous tract, and although his first effort was not successful, his 
second attempt, which was preceded by a dilatation of the fistu 
Ions opening, accomplished the desired object, and the wound 
healed rapidly of itself.— Western Medical Reporter. 
Strict Sanitation.— Charles E. Taylor, M.D.F.T.S., in his 
third paper on “ Tropical Therapeutics,” points out as the cause 
of the marked change in the hygienic condition of certain of the 
West Indies, particularly St. Thomas, which he reverts to as the 
brightest example of the value of strict sanitation, quarantine 
