The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-12-29
CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.

SOME curious facts were related re
:arling hydrophobia before the
Academy of Sciences, Paris, by NJ
Bert. 1t seems that incubation with
mucus from the respiratory passages OF
mad dog caused rabies. but that with
the salivary liquids did not. Recipro-
cal TRANSMISSION of blood bet tween a
healthy and mad dog caused no rabies
in the former.
A COW will give more milk and make
more butter on bright sunshiny day
than during one Of a dull, dark charac-
ter. The animal eats more heartily,
digcsts better, while the vital forces are
active during the pleasant day. These
facts are not in themselves very i'm
rortant, Yet they suggest the query
whether close stabling of cows in winter
or summer is better than 81 ring them
the run of yard or pasture lot.
NJ. REGNABD, a French savant, has
been lately trying the effect of "blood
diet" on lambs. Three lambs, which for
some unexplained cause had been
abandoned by their mothers, were fed
on powdered blood with the most
gratifying results. The lambs in
creased in size in the most marvellous
fashion, and attained unusual proper
tions for their age The coats of wool
also became double in thickness. En-
couraged by his success with the lambs,
NJ. Regnard is now feeding some calves
on blood.
AT the Nuremberg Exhibition WAS
shown a novel use of bricks of cork.
These bricks have not only been used for
building purposes, on account OF their
ightness and isolating properties; but
they are now also used Us covering for
boilers, and are said to excel even a.
bestos in preventing the radiation OF
heat. They ars stated to be very cheap,
being composed of small corks, refuse
and isolating cement At Nuremberg
the application Of cork tricks was
largely shown. The usual size of cork
bricks is 10 by At by - inches.
DIR. MERKEL states that the height OF
IN individual after nights rest, meas
ured before rising from the bed, il
two inches greater than it is in the
evening, measured standing. There il
q gradual diminution in height, caused
by the yielding of the plantar arches
and of the intervertebral discs; and q
sudden diminution when the individual
rises, occurring at the articulations Of
the lower extremities. The sinking at
the ankle is inch; at the knee liz to !
inch; at the hip, % INCH. The shorten
ing at the knee is probably due to the
elasticity of the cartilages. At the hip
there is. in addition, a sinking OF the
head of the femur into the cotyloid cav
ity.-Jou,nal de Met1e'.ine de Paris.
DIR. FoRMAp. III letter to the Meda'
cal Times, of Chicago, states that "by q
German imperial order i'll military
hospitals phthisical patients are sepa-
rated from other cases rs carefully aa
smallpox patients: $50 gentleman tells
me who llas just come from Germany
Even here the community begins to 70
gard the disease rs elninently conta'
Sious. I know Of an instance Of
Young woman suffering from phthisis
being locked up and avoided, perhaps
neglected by the members of her OWE
family, for fear of contagion. ! have
learned of several consuniptives who
have become worse from the mortifica'
ton of having their friends avoid them
some even going SO far as not to shake
hands with them
NEW facts concerning rabies have
been presented to the French Academy
of Sciences by Pasteur and others. AL
forms of rabies thoy hold come from
the same virus; that is to say, whatevsl
symptoms might be manifested in tn.
victim the origin could be traced ant
proven to be identical. It has beer
proven that death after inoculatio1
with rabid saliva may be either from
microbe found in the saliva, from mucl
pus formation, OF from rabies produce:
and communicated directly. That ',
rus is contained not only in the mednl
10 oblongata, hut in the brain and SPIN
al cord. Experiments on animals sho'
that rabies may be produced very cel
tainly and quickly either hy the acts 9
trepanation or inoculation or by !ntras
eneous injection. 1t Was poted that q
ter the 2rst symptoms 'aSs'saR 9 s e (
coyery, but that when I
petnon hope uf lite n D.
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