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produced more rapidly with the elevation of temperature; when we wish 
to act more rapidly, a few drops of ether in the vessel will effect this. By 
operating thus, it appears to me that the cantharides will be in better pre- 
servation than when destroyed by vinegar. I leave to my colleagues to 
verify this by experiment. — Riqcet, Pharmaceutist. 
Journ. de Chim. Med. 
The flowers of Krooso. — According to M. Abadie, (Theodore,) these 
flowers, brought from the moist countries of Abyssinia, belong to the fa- 
mily Malvaceae, and are a remedy for taenia. The analysis of these flow- 
ers, made by M. S. Martin, have proven that they contain — 
1. Amidon. 
2. Saccharine matter. 
3. Vegetable extractive. 
4. Very odorous green resin. 
5. Crystals soluble in water and in alcohol, having the property of 
reddening litmus paper. 
Journ. de Chim Med. 
On the Microscopic Constituents of Milk. By Professor Nasse, of Mar- 
burg. — After a careful microscopic examination of milk from pregnant and 
suckling women, as well as from a cow and a bitch, and a comparison of 
his results with those of Donne and other preceding observers, the author 
says that the following may be enumerated as the microscopic constituents 
of the normal secretion of the mammary gland : 1. The smooth, homoge- 
neous, transparent oil-globules, to which, in addition to the common milk- 
globules, belong also the fine, scarcely-measurable particles, and the larger 
drops of oil which swim on the top of the milk. 2. The cream-globules, 
which are distinguished from the oil-globules by their opacity and their 
facette-like aspect. 3. The granulated yellow corpuscles. 4. The la- 
mella of epithelium. 5. The more or less turbid medium, in which the 
four preceding kinds of corpuscles are suspended. 
The first, the common milk-globules, are composed entirely of fatty 
matter, which dissolves completely and rapidly in ether. No membrane 
can be seen investing them. In the first nine days after delivery, the 
largest globules measure l-200th of a line in diameter; afterwards they 
are as much as l-100th, but many are found of a much smaller size; and 
through all periods of lactation, the microscope, as well as other means of 
examination, show that the proportion of oil-globules in the milk varies 
greatly in different persons and under different circumstances. 
In perfectly fresh, warm woman's milk, no other globules than these 
are sometimes found. But as soon as the milk has stood for some time 
exposed to the air, other corpuscles are discernible in it, which are distin- 
guished from the preceding by a greater definiteness, a less degree of 
