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low.  The Section not being itself provided with the apparatus necessary for making physiological experiments, the latter were made partly at the Museum of Hygiene in this city and partly in the physiological laboratory of the John ^[[s]] Hopkins University at Baltimore, Md.  Much good work might indeed be accomplished in this line of research ^[[,]] and hundreds of new as well as old drugs are awaiting investigation.  For the papers published on this subject [[strikethrough]]see[[/strikethrough]] ^[[the]] bibliography [[strikethrough]] under vi [[/strikethrough]] ^[[in part IV. should be consulted.]]

[[strikethrough]] ^[[S.C.longprimer]][[double underlined]] Notes upon the more important Accessions received during the year. [[/double underlined]] [[/strikethrough]]

One of the most interesting acquisitions of the Museum this year is a collection of the various medicinal lints and cottons together with silks ^[[,]] thread and cat-gut sut[[strikethrough]]tuns[[/strikethrough]] ^[[ures]] done up in bottles, all of which are now extensively used in what is known as antiseptic surgery.  The treatment of wounds according to the principles of Antisepsis is daily gaining in importance and general application ^[[,]] and