Dr. Carlo Ruata, professor of materia medica and pharmacology in the University of Perugia, has, according to the Rome correspondent of the Lancet, a new cure for consumption. At a meeting of the Umbrian Medical Congress, Professor Ruata explained his "cure," as the correspondent says, to a large and sympathetic, if not a wholly convinced audience. Briefly stated, it consists in the graduated continuous inhalation of alcohol, creosote and chloroform. Eleven typical cases of pronounced tuberculosis were perfectly cured. Out of another series of cases, 32 in number, in 22 the progress of the disease was so arrested as to put them out of danger. The Congress expressed satisfaction at the report and, while reserving judgment, congratulated Dr. Ruata on having devised a new line of treatment, "which has only to be developed if in some respects modified, to give it what Baccelli called the rights of citizenship in clinical