showed absence of organic disease.
The anaesthetist regarded the death as one from cardiac failure due to
reflex inhibition by irritation of the vagus. We are not told the
posture of the child or the method employed.--The Lancet.

[Footnote 1: We are indebted to Mr. Hammond Smith, honorary
surgeon to the hospital, and Mr. Edgar Collis for the notes of the
case.--Ed. Lancet]

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The resistance of nickel steel to the attack of water increases with
the nickel contents. The least expanding alloys, containing about 36
per cent. of nickel, are sufficiently unassailable, and can be exposed
for months to air saturated with moisture without being tainted by
rust. With a view of testing the expansion of nickel steel,
experiments have been carried out by allowing measuring rods to remain
in warm water for some hours, according to The Iron and Coal Trades
Review. They were not wiped off when taken out, but were exposed for a
longer period to hot steam, but the lines traced on the polished
surfaces were not altered. The rough surfaces, when exposed to steam,
were covered after several days with a continuous, but little
adhesive, coat of rust.

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