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... ntent at http://about.jstor.org/participate--jstor/individuals/early-journal--content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not--for--profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. SCIE are cool and wet. Bronchitis, pneumonia, and asthma increase as the temperature falls, and diminish as it rises. The damp, cold days of November, and the dry, cold days of the early months of the year, have been most prolific in cases of diphtheria. As to hydrophobia, the hot 'dog-days' of summer are generally considered to be those during which this disease is most prevalent; and this ancient belief is justified to some extent by facts, although we must remember that it shows itself to be independent, in its spread, of a high temperature, as the mortality in London during thirty years proves. The number of cases is as numerous in December as in August. More persons, doubtless, are bitten by dogs in hot weather, because dogs are more irritable during this season. We want an answer to the query as to the percentage of cases of hydrophobia in those who are bitten in each month of the year, before we can determine with certainty the influence of meteorological conditions on the disease. In this section are also given directions for observing the meteorological states and variations in the conditions of the air, as to its pressure, temperature, and moisture, the direction and strength of the wind, and its electrical state. The last section of the book is taken up with a consideration of the food, its impurities, and methods of inspection and examination, including the inspection of meat, poultry, game, fish, fruit, and vegetables. Separate chapters are devoted to tinned provisions, corn, flour, bread, and milk. On the subject of tinned provisions, or ' canned goods,' as we should call them, Dr. Fox says that preserved Australian meats, and American tinned fish, fruit, etc., are apt to become impregnated with small quantities of lead from the solder and tin, which frequently contain, as impurities, arsenic and antimony. The vegetable and other acids associated with these provisions have a corrosive effect, which is increased by the galvanic action set up between the metals. In the chapters on milk and its examination the author gives numerous instances of disease caused by impure milk or by that from sick cows. The evidence that tuberculosis may be thus communicated is very striking and very convincing, if, indeed, there be any at the present day who, having given the subject any consideration, doubt it. Taken as a whole, this work of Dr. Fox is an excellent one, and should be in the library of every sanitarian and physician. A PHYSICIAN of Caracas reports, that, during an epidemic of yellow-fever which occurred in that place, one of the victims was a monkey. After an illness of four days, the fever proved fatal.