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the direct way from mouth to mouth.” In the little village of 
Neuenberg, of about 1,300 inhabitants, there were two midwives, 
R. and S.; S. was the one diseased, while R. was perfectly healthy. 
Dr. Reich then gives an account of ten children, all of whom died 
from meningitis tuberculosa, and all of whom were assisted into 
the world by midwife S., during the time when she presented the 
phenomena of progressed pulmonary phthisis; while during the 
same period not a single child died whose birth was assisted by 
midwife R., either from meningitis tuberculosa or any disease 
giving a suspicion of the presence of tuberculosis. 
It was constituted by inquiries among the inhabitants that the 
midwife S. had the habit of sucking the mucosity from the mouths 
of new-born children, and that further she demonstrated most 
peculiarly affectionate tendencies for hugging and kissing them. 
The results of Dr. Reich’s paper are summed up by himself 
as follows: 
1. In the time from the summer of 1875 to the fall of 1876, 
ten children died in Neuenberg from meningitis tuberculosa, who 
were born between April 4, 1875, and May 10, 1876. 
2. A transmitted disposition was not to be proven by either 
of the ten children. 
3. These ten children were assisted into the world by mid¬ 
wife S. 
4. During the same period not a child born under the hands 
of midwife R., died of meningitis tuberculosis or a kindred disease. 
5. Midwife S. had the above mentioned peculiar deportment 
with newly born children. 
6. In three of the above mentioned cases of meningitis tuber¬ 
culosa, the disease began with bronchitic phenomena. 
7. Meningitis tuberculosa is not an endemic disease in Neuen- 
berg. 
En Virchow’s Archives, Band 73, Heft. III., appears also a very 
interesting paper upon “ Eine neue methode Tuberculose zu 
erzeugen,” by Dr. Tappeiner in Merau. 
The desire of Dr. Tappeiner to prove by experiment the cor¬ 
rectness of the observation, that young girls from healthy families 
who become subjected to phthisis by long attendance on phthisic 
