316 The 'Book of the Goat. 



tagious Disease of Goats : Being a Preliminary Report on 

 its Nature, Cause, and Prevention, by John R. Mohler, 

 V.M.D., A.M., Chief of the Pathological Division, 

 Bureau of Animal Industry, and Henry J. Washburn, 

 D.V.S., Acting Assistant Chief." The work is issued 

 officially by the U.S. Department of Agriculture at 

 Washington. It is evident from the contents of the 

 forty-four pages comprising this pamphlet that what is 

 referred to on pp. 304-9 as " a peculiar disease," and 

 ' ' takosis, ' ' the name given in America to a disease which 

 appears to have originated at a farm of Angora goats 

 in Pennsylvania, are practically one and the same. 

 The name is indeed well chosen, being derived from a 

 Greek word meaning " to waste, to cause to waste away." 

 A history of the outbreak, together with the symptoms of 

 the disease, its treatment, and other matters of interest, 

 appeared in The Bazaar, Exchange and Mart of ist and 

 8th Sept., 1909.* 



No specific appears to have been found for this dis- 

 order, but under the heading ' ' Therapeutics ' ' we read 

 as follows: "The most pleasing results that have 

 been derived from the use of drugs in our experiments 

 at the laboratory have followed the administration of 

 calomel given alone in o.io gram doses twice daily for 

 two days, to be followed by powders composed of arsenic, 

 iron, and quinine, as follows : 



Arsenious acid 1.40 grams. 



Iron (reduced) 12.00 ,, 



Quinine sulphate 6.00 ,, 



Mix and make into twenty powders, giving one to each 

 adult goat morning and evening at the conclusion of the 

 administration of calomel. After an interval of two days 

 this treatment is repeated. In case the diarrhoea persists, 



* These articles have been reprinted, and are among the "Leaflets" 

 issued by the British Goat Society. 



