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POSSIBILITIES OF A REPARATIVE SURGERY. Experiments have been made by Dr. Abbe on animals, and the results obtained are of great interest. After cutting across the femorals in a dog he inserted smooth sterilized glass tubes, slightly constricted to an hour-glass shape, tied each end of the vessel over the tube by fine silk thread, and then brought the thread ends together. Primary union took place, and the limb was as well nourished as ever; but in order to determine whether this was not due to collateral circulation Dr. Abbe cut out one of the tubes and found the lower end of the vessel occluded by slow endarteritis, To eliminate the element of collateral circulation be tied into the aorta of a cat an inch of very thin glass tube sterilized by boiling, and filled with water before inserting to prevent air emboli. This animal also recovered perfectly. A still more radical procedure was then practised. After dissecting out the brachial artery and vein near the axilla of a dog's forelimb, and holding these apart he amputated the limb through the shoulder muscles and sawed through the bone, leaving the limb attached only by the vessels. He then sutured the bone with silver wire, the nerves with fine silk, and each muscle by itself, making a separate series of continuous suturing of the fascia lata and skin. Perfect union and restoration of function also took place in this instance. This experiment demonstrates that a limb will survive division of all its structures if an artery be left ; and further the author points out that if an arterial supply can be restored to a completely amputated limb, that limb also may be grafted back to its original or a corresponding stump. Should Dr. Abbe's investigations-as yet incomplete-show that it is possible to do this in animals, an important contribution will have been made to the subject of reparative surgery. The tissues of animals, however, possess so much higher reparative power than those of human beings, that it is difficult to predict the possibilities of this fin de siècle method of grafting.-International Journal of Surgery. INSECT-VISION. -In the compound eye of an insect, says Dr. G. J. Stoney (Royal Society, Dublin), the amount of detail visible is limited by the spacing of the lenses and by the aperture of each lens. Predatory insects, as dragon-flies, which have the largest number of lenses, require that objects should be placed at least a degree apart, to be seen separately, whereas, in the man, the corresponding angular distance is only one minute. Moths, bees, flies, etc., which have not so many lenses, cannot distinguish objects that are less than two degrees apart, so that they cannot see details on their own antennæ, close as they are, so well as we can from the distance from which we view them. No movement of the eye is possible, as with us, to take in successively different fields of vision; but insects seem to be able to see distinctly throughout the whole of their field of vision, which is impossible for us. The different parts of the compound eye may be focussed separately, so that a wasp, hovering over a breakfast-table, can see (with as much distinctness as he can see anything) all the objects on the table at once, no matter how their distances may differ. SOAP SUDS FOR CALMING WAVES. -The remarkable action of oil upon waves is well known. This phenomena led the officers of the steamship Scandia, of Hamburg, to make an experiment upon the same principle that was very successful, and that appears to us worthy of mention. During its last trip to the United States the vessel, while in mid |