Tuberculin and Tuberculin Dispensaries

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general clearing day, say at Christmas, when the sums collected oould be sent to the Honorary Treasurer (Dr. Samuel West, 15, Wimpole Street, W.). If even half the practitioners of Great Britain joined in this plan, it is obvious that a very large amount would come in. Every. one interested in the work of the society will have heard with the keenest satisfaction of the guild which has been established, and in which ladies are rendering such admirable and highly encouraging service. Would not their advocacy secare a large measure of success for the scheme which I have thus roughly outlined ?-I am, etc., Cambridge, March 14th. HOWARD MARSH. CONTINUOUS ANTISEPTIC INHALATION IN PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS. SIR,-There is one untoward event that must not escape attention in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis by the continuous inhalation of drugs, and that is the danger of causing haemoptysis. A patient given a respirator saturated with an antiseptic solution naturally takes deeper and longer breaths. In lungs where a tuberculous ulceration is in progress this is very liable to cause rupture of the capillaries and oozing of blood. I remember