. Plexus. im glory,Once gave a ball in a fete took place on a cover glass,Where vulgar germs could not but the cultered were invited(For microbe cliques are well united),And tightly closed the ballroom doorsTo all the germs containing Staphylococci first arrived—To stand in groups they all contrived—The Streptococci took great painsTo seat themselves in graceful somewhat late, and two by two,The Diplococci came in Pneumococci, stern and haughty,Declared the Gonococci would not care to stay at allIf they were present at the
. Plexus. im glory,Once gave a ball in a fete took place on a cover glass,Where vulgar germs could not but the cultered were invited(For microbe cliques are well united),And tightly closed the ballroom doorsTo all the germs containing Staphylococci first arrived—To stand in groups they all contrived—The Streptococci took great painsTo seat themselves in graceful somewhat late, and two by two,The Diplococci came in Pneumococci, stern and haughty,Declared the Gonococci would not care to stay at allIf they were present at the ball began, the mirth ran high,With not one thought of danger germ enjoyed himself that never a fear of the getting late (and some were loaded),When a jar of formalin exploded,And drenched the happy, dancing mass, Who swarmed the fatal, cover glass.* * * * * * Not one survived, but perished allAt this bacteriologic ball. —Southern California ALEXANDER HUGH FERGUSON, M. D. THE PLEXUS THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY*0F ILLINOIS, VOL. VI. JANUARY 20th, 1901. NO. 9. SOME OF THE CLINICAL AND OPERATIVE PHASESOF Alexander Hugh Ferguson, M. a pleasant world to live in, were it not for the ills thathuman flesh is heir to and the systemic disturbances caused byour environments. Cholelithiasis adds its quota to human suf-fering, and has sent many a valuable life prematurely to the recording the family history of gall stone cases, it is not infre-quent to learn that near and remote antecedents died of jaundiceafter many years of suffering, at an age far short of three scoreand ten. The corelation of spasm and jaundice was observed bythe ancient fathers of medicine. Galen remarked that whennature is unable to evacuate the bile (by spasmodic efforts), it iscollected in the skin, and occasions jaundice. In the variousscientific
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