The walls of the

red blood corpuscles are diminished in number; the blood is thinner than normal, and pigment matter is frequently in such excess as to cause thrombi in the smaller capillaries. blood vessels lose their tenacity, thus favoring the effusion of their contents. The function of the spleen, as a diverticulum for the blood is frequently interfered with, thus depriving the congested capillary system of the relief which a proper performance of the splenic function affords. The parasite which has been found in the red blood corpuscles of malarial patients may contribute to the formation of thrombi, or its presence may be capable of establishing organic disease of the pulp, as it is believed to excite disease of the kidney, liver, etc., by its mere presence within these organs. From the known facts as to the nature of malarial

poisoning, it is probable that the circulation in the pulp must be influenced by it in no small degree. The contracted apex of the root of a tooth is highly favorable to the formation of a thrombus within the pulp chamber, while the blood pressure necessary for forcing its return from the pulp circulation would favor effusion into the pulp tissue-a result which we know would prove disastrous to a living pulp. The parasite may excite irritation from pressure if sufficient to occlude the blood vessels, or their presence as a foreign body may produce irritation of the sensory nerves sufficient to bring about extreme congestion.

It cannot be doubted that malaria has a deleterious influence on the pulp of a tooth and on the health of tooth structure generally, and it should certainly receive the importance it demands.

A DOCTOR Says the best cure he knows for a cold is the old-fashioned sweat. "Take ten grains of quinine, a hot mustard foot-bath, a stiff glass of toddy." Jones believes in the remedy, but nine times out of ten he will forget the quinine and foot-bath.

ICE FOR TEETHING CHILDREN.

The pain of teething may be almost done away, and the health of the child benefited, by giving fine splinters of ice, picked off with a pin to melt in the mouth. The fragment is so small that it is but a drop of warm water before it can be swallowed, and the child has all the coolness for its feverish gums without the

slightest injury. The avidity with which the little things taste the cooling morsel, the instant quiet which succeeds hours of fretfulness, and the sleep which follows

the relief, are the best witnesses to the magic remedy. Ice may be fed to a threemonths-old child this way, each splinter being no larger than a common pin, for five or ten minutes, the result being that it has swallowed in that time a teaspoonful of warm water, which, so far from being a harm, is good for it, and the process may be repeated hourly as often as Hall's Journal of Health. the fretting fits from teething begin.

SOME of the conclusions of science would indeed be appalling but for their practical harmlessness. Thus, geologists

assert that if the continents and the bottom of the ocean were graded down to a uniform level, the whole world would be covered with water a mile deep, so much greater is the depression of the ocean bed than the elevation of the existing land.

THE dentist of Mendocino City, Cal., suddenly threw off the garments of his trade, like Grindhoff in The Miller and His Men, and flamed forth in his second dress as a captain of banditti. A stage coach robbery was followed by a long chase in the hill country, involving much desultory fighting, in which the dentist was killed. "He had been unwell," said an apologetic speaker at his funeral, "and the doctor told him to take something, so he took the express box."