Work is needed on the place of such herds in the ecology of campylobacters, the endemicity of the infection within herds, and the factors leading to contamination of milk.We believe that the evidence points to thermophilic Campylobacter sp being an occasional but important contaminant of milk, which, under certain circumstances, may give rise to considerable outbreaks of enteritis in man. As with salmonella contamination it is probably only important where unpasteurised milk is consumed, but so long as there is a public demand for unpasteurised milk and the law allows such milk to be widely distributed, we believe that there is a risk that outbreaks will continue to occur.

never have been reduced. The timidity of the patient and his friends would have kept them from any further attempts at reduction. Complete relaxation was induced by the ether. A. B. Shipman.Cortlandville, iV. Y., June 23, 1848. P. S.-One word with regard to etherization. A few days since, I exhibited the ether to a patient on whom I performed a surgical operation (castration). The ether was inhaled twenty minutes before insensibility was induced. Great excitement followed the operation ; the patient laughed, shouted, and tried to get off the operating table, and it was with the greatest difficulty that he could be calmed, while applying the dressings. All went on well until the third day, when he was seized wilh a rigor, and fever soon followed ; severe pain in chest ; bloody sputa and difficult respiration, ami a thin bloody sanies from the wound. I bled him, and the blood did not coagulate, but a strong huffy coat formed on the surface, while all beneath was dark, loose fluid. 1 confess I felt greatly concerned as lo the result. The face was livid, pulse rapid, irregular, and he was exceedingly faint and weak. 1 gave him

Work is needed on the place of such herds in the ecology of campylobacters, the endemicity of the infection within herds, and the factors leading to contamination of milk.We believe that the evidence points to thermophilic Campylobacter sp being an occasional but important contaminant of milk, which, under certain circumstances, may give rise to considerable outbreaks of enteritis in man. As with salmonella contamination it is probably only important where unpasteurised milk is consumed, but so long as there is a public demand for unpasteurised milk and the law allows such milk to be widely distributed, we believe that there is a risk that outbreaks will continue to occur.

to have several watery stools occasionally, but very active purgation might bring about a state of collapse. Diuretics seem to me to be entirely useless and often might be harmful. The way to increase the secreting pressure through the kidneys is through the heart or circulation. Such patients often fuel faint, and a little stimulant helps this and increases the heart's action. Relequet recommends elastic bandages to the lower extremities, to raise the pressure in the kidneys. Thornton recommends for

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