The plague has claimed another victim at Vienna in Dr.
Muller, who had attended on the assistant Barisch. Dr. Muller, who was only thirty-two years of age, was a member of the Austrian Commission sent to Bombay, an assistant of the eminent physician Professor Nothnagel, and himself marked out for eminence by his ability and energy. While attending on Barisch and during the course of his own illness Dr. Muller displayed an unselfish heroism and a devotion to the interests of science and humanity that defy description. We can only refer our readers to the profoundly touching account of his reception of the last sacraments, of his careful scien- tific observations made while dying, and of his burial by night which is given in Tuesday's Times. The two nurses are both in a most precarious condition, the injection of serum— which Dr. Muller declined—having proved inefficacious, and four other persons are also isolated at the Epidemic Hospital. Measures of unexampled stringency continue to be taken to prevent the spread of the plague, and attention having been called to the inadequate hospital accommodation of Vienna it is some consolation to think that Dr. Midler will not have died in vain.
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