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perature,  once  daily.  Pie  regards  this  as  being  the  best  remedy  for 
the  irrigation  treatment  of  gonorrhea  and  analyzes  thirty-six  cases, 
carefully  controlled,  in  which  he  made  use  of  the  treatment:  (From 
Medical  Record,  New  York,  through  Jour.  Amer.  Med.  Assoc., 
Feb.  12,  1921.) 
The  Wassermann  Reaction  Outside  of  Syphilis. — Touraine 
records  a  number  of  tropical  diseases  which  give  a  positive  Wasser- 
mann. Leprosy  gives  the  reaction  in  47  per  cent,  of  cases.  Pulmo- 
nary tuberculosis  is  known  to  have  reacted  in  197  out  of  848  cases, 
lupus  in  50  per  cent,  of  cases.  Even  a  prolonged  ether  or  chloro- 
form narcosis  will  give  a  positive  Wassermann  in  about  25  per  cent, 
of  instances.  A  number  of  blood  diseases  (hemoglobinuria,  leukemia) 
occasionally  also  contribute  to  the  source  of  possible  errors.  Author 
warns  against  a  one-sided  conclusion  in  the  basis  of  positive  Was- 
sermann. (From  Revue  de  Medecine,  Paris — 37,  No.  2,  1920, 
through  Jour.  Amer.  Med.  Assoc.,  Dec.  18,  1920.) 
NEWS  ITEMS  AND  PERSONAL  NOTES 
Decease  of  Professor  Elie  Bourquelot  of  France. — The 
death  is  announced  in  Paris  of  Professor  Elie  Emile  Bourquelot, 
Chevalier  of  the  Legion  of  Honor,  Vice-President  of  the  Academy 
of  Science  and  the  Academy  of  Medicine.  Professor  Bourquelot 
was  born  in  Jandun  in  185 1.  He  passed  his  examination  for  the 
degree  of  docteur  es  sciences  in  1884  and  became  professor  of  phar- 
macy in  the  Paris  School  of  Pharmacy  in  1897.  From  1886  on- 
wards the  name  of  Professor  Bourquelot  is  of  frequent  occurrence 
in  the  index  of  the  "Year-Book  of  Pharmacy,"  as  the  author  of 
pharmacological  monographs.  In  1909  he  was  present  at  the  Inter- 
national Congress  of  Applied  Chemistry  in  London,  and  contributed 
a  paper  on  "The  Employment  of  Emulsin  in  Testing  for  Glucosides 
in  Vegetable  Products."  At  the  International  Congress  of  Phar- 
macy at  The  Hague  in  19 13  he  read  a  monograph  on  "The  Syn- 
thesis of  Glucosides  by  Ferments."  His  well-known  book  on 
soluble  ferments  was  published  in  1896.  As  editor  of  the  Journal 
de  Pharmacie  et  de  Chimie  and  as  a  brilliant  man  of  science  his 
reputation  was  world-wide.  An  abstract  of  a  paper  prepared  by 
Professor  Bourquelot  appears  in  this  issue  of  the  Journal. 
