results obtained by artificial pneumothorax, resection of ribs for empyema, thoracoplasty for chronic pulmonary phthisis and partial pneumonectomy (2). Still even now, in the presence of acute phthisis, surgery is almost powerless. In glandular tuberculosis the case however is very different. In the plains of India, bovine tuberculosis is relatively uncommon, only about 3 per cent, of the slaug...

10. LAGRANGE, F.-Atlas d'ophtalmoscopie de gu6rre. Masson et Cie., Editeurs. Paris, 1918. 11. DE LAPERsoNNE.-Indication opdratoire dans les blessures de gudrre orbitooculaires. Bull. de l'Acad. de Med., No. 1, pp. 41-44, 1915. 12. MARIE PIERRE et CHARLES CHATELLIN.-Revue neurologique. NovembreDdcembre, 1915. Bull. de l'A cad. de Mid., No. 24, 1915. 13. OGUCHI.-Augenverletzungen in japanischen H...

I AM one of the practitioners of medicine in Edinburgh who believe that in the causation of phthisis, infection is a factor of such relatively small importance that the compulsory notification of this disease as an infectious disease is, in the majority of cases, quite unnecessary. I am, further, one of those who hold that its compulsory notification in all cases would be mischievous, as divert...

In 459 consecutive autopsies made during the Madras Famine of 1877-78, tubercular deposit was found in one or both lungs in thirty men, 13*3 per cent., twenty women, 12*8 per cent., and in one child. The deposit was present in both lungs in eighteen of the men aud in sixteen of the women, was confined to the right lung in three of the men, the child, and three of the women, and to the left lung...