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physician to the institution, and with him has been associa- 

 ted Dr. E. Klein, whose name is well known as the contribu- 

 tor of various articles to Strieker's " Histology," and the au- 

 thor of several important embryological researches. Com- 

 munication. 



BROW T N INSTITUTION. 



The " Brown Institution," in London, for sick animals, of 

 which we have already presented a notice to our readers, 

 bids fair to be of great public utility in direct connection 

 with its mission. A handsome grant having been made by 

 the Chamber of Agriculture, the gentlemen connected with 

 this institution are about undertaking a series of observations 

 upon the treatment and comparative pathology of pleuro- 

 pneumonia. 12 A, February 8, 1872, 292. 



BROWN INSTITUTION. 



We noticed some time since the foundation of the "Brown 

 Institution," near London, for the treatment and investiga- 

 tion of the diseases of animals. Professors Sanderson and 

 Klein are now undertaking in that establishment a work of 

 great public utility, viz., a series of observations on the treat- 

 ment and comparative pathology of pleuro-pneumonia, a dis- 

 ease which has committed such costly ravages among the 

 herds of cattle in Europe and America during the last few 

 years. Communicated. 



MILK OF DISEASED CATTLE. 



Mr. Husson, in a paper upon the milk of animals diseased 

 with the cattle-plague, announces, as the result of one of his 

 researches, that neither the flesh nor the milk of animals suf- 

 fering from this cattle-plague contagious typhus will con- 

 vey the disease, although they may suffer greatly in their nu- 

 tritive properties. The milk of diseased cows he found to 

 have a more or less marked reddish-yellow tinge, and a dis- 

 agreeable flavor, although cats fed upon it seemed to suffer 

 no inconvenience. 



As general conclusions, Mr. Husson remarks : First, that 

 when the typhus breaks out in a cow-house, all the beasts 

 therein are subjected, although in different degrees, to the 

 epidemic influence. In fact, in one instance, the Avhole herd 



