. Annals of hygiene. ways recognized as such. He records seven cases in hisown practice, and in most the food was either condensed milk orconcentrated or sterilized milk. In one case fresh milk was given,but in a very diluted form. The prolonged heating of condensed,concentrated, and sterilized milk destroys its anti scorbutic prop-erties. All the cases quickly recovered when given fresh foods,fresh milk, and meat juices. Sewer-Gas and Typhoid Fever. Dr. Alessi has been conducting some experiments upon theeffects of sewer-gas on typhoid fever. The rats, rabbits, andguinea-pigs used, when expos
. Annals of hygiene. ways recognized as such. He records seven cases in hisown practice, and in most the food was either condensed milk orconcentrated or sterilized milk. In one case fresh milk was given,but in a very diluted form. The prolonged heating of condensed,concentrated, and sterilized milk destroys its anti scorbutic prop-erties. All the cases quickly recovered when given fresh foods,fresh milk, and meat juices. Sewer-Gas and Typhoid Fever. Dr. Alessi has been conducting some experiments upon theeffects of sewer-gas on typhoid fever. The rats, rabbits, andguinea-pigs used, when exposed to the inhalation of sewer-gas,became so predisposed to infection that a small loss of an almostharmless cultivation of typhoid germs killed them. The animalsnot so exposed rallied from the same, and even far larger exposure to the sewer-gas was apparently muchless dangerous than a short exposure. They evidently becameused to the gas, so that the eflfect was less pronounced.—-£;f<r^aw^^.. COMMUNICATIONS On the Cholera Epidemic in Moji, Japan, in tlteXwenty-eiglitli Year of Meiji. BY W. F. ARNOLD, ,United States Navy.
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