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formed,  and  in  a  few  minutes  is  seen  as  islets  united  in  a  reticulate 
pattern,  much  resembling  the  arrangement  of  Ebert's  bacillus 
agglutinated  by  typhoid  serum.  The  same  thing  is  observed  in  fil- 
tered aqueous  solutions  of  dried  blood.  It  is  only  after  a  long  time 
<(i2  to  24  hours)  that  a  similar  appearance  is  seen  in  blood  of  other 
animals. — Charlotte  Med.  Jour.;  Pediatrics,  1902,  p.  359. 
ARTIFICIAL  INFANT  FEEDING. 
S.  A.  Visanska  (Pediatrics,  Feb.  15,  1902)  says  that  endeavoring 
to  feed  a  baby  artificially,  three  important  factors  are  to  be  borne  in 
mind :  First,  the  quantity  of  the  food  ;  secondly,  the  quality  of  the 
food;  thirdly,  the  individual  peculiarities  of  the  child.  The  writer 
says  that  one  of  the  most  frequent  mistakes  made  in  feeding  a  baby 
is  that  of  giving  it  a  much  greater  quantity  of  food  than  it  can  pos- 
sibly assimilate,  with  a  result  that  a  child  either  vomits  it  or  passes 
it  through  the  bowels  in  an  undigested  state. 
Regarding  the  character  of  food  to  be  given  a  child,  that  is  its 
quality,  it  is  evident  that  the  more  closely  the  food  resembles 
mother's  milk  the  more  likely  it  is  to  agree  with  the  child.  The 
writer  says  that  his  experience  has  taught  him  that  modified  cow's 
milk  is  the  ideal  artificial  food  for  feeding  infants.  He  says  that  the 
method  he  has  adopted  for  feeding  babies  is  that  of  Professor  Seibert, 
and  that  is  to  feed  according  to  the  weight  and  not  the  age  of  the 
child.  Visanska  says  that  it  is  of  no  advantage  to  have  the  milk 
from  one  cow ;  it  is  in  fact  a  distinct  disadvantage,  for  the  great  dif- 
ference which  exists  between  milk  of  different  cows  makes  it  impos- 
sible to  prepare  a  proper  imitation  of  mother's  milk,  according  to 
any  fixed  rules,  unless  we  should  have  individual  cow's  milk  analyzed 
in  order  to  determine  in  just  what  way  the  mixture  should  be  made. 
Besides  this,  the  milk  of  any  cow  is  subject  to  variations  from  time 
to  time,  depending  upon  the  nature  of  the  food  given  it,  the  health 
of  the  animal  and  other  factors. 
COFFEE  AND  TEA  AS  PRECIPITANTS  FOR  POISONS. 
Dr.  Torald  Sollmann,  Assistant  Professor  of  Pharmacology  of  the 
Western  Reserve  University  of  Ohio,  reports  some  interesting 
experiments  upon  "  Coffee  and  Tea  as  Precipitants  for  Poisons." 
(The  Journal  of  Medical  Research,  January,  1902,  43-53.)  After 
referring  to  the  generally  accepted  opinion  that  strong  tea  and  black 
