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microbes in the form of bright granules and rods in the 

 deposits. The disease seems to be communicable to other calves 

 and to mankind. Numerous bacilli occupy the line of junction 

 between the diseased and the healthy tissues. These bacilli are 

 capable of propagating the disease. Pigs and other domesticated 

 animals are liable to be attacked. The best treatment is very 

 careful nursing coupled with liquid food, steaming of the air- 

 passages with an antiseptic inhalation such as can be made by 

 adding about a teaspoonful of oil of eucalyptus to about a gallon 

 of boiling water, a free supply of water with chlorate of potas- 

 sium added to it (about a drachm to each half-bucketful), and a 

 plentiful supply of air. Salicylic acid has been found valuable 

 as a curative agent. The dose is about one drachm. Sulphite 

 of sodium is of great, and perhaps of inestimable, value. Tt may 

 be administered in doses of one drachm, given rather frequently, 

 in accordance with the requirements of the particular case. If 

 there is danger of suffocation, the veterinary surgeon must 

 perform tracheotomy. 



In the management of this disease a nourishing administra- 

 tion of vegetable tonics, and of coffee according to some, are to 

 be recommended. The sloughs in the mouth should be removed, 

 and the places left bare should be acted upon with the tincture 

 or the solution of perchloride of iron (Mr. James), or with some 

 caustic, or perhaps with weak solution of perchloride of mercury 

 carefully applied. 



SCARLET FEVER OR SCARLATINA. 

 If it is true that a rose with any other name would smell as 

 sweet, it is equally obvious that immense importance attaches 

 itself to correct nomenclature. Hence, in assigning to any 

 disease of the ox emphatically and categorically the title of 

 scarlet fever, one might, in the present state of knowledge upon 

 the subject, be considered to be a little bold. The kind reader 

 who has followed us in our efforts to clear up some of the diflB- 

 culties connected with the most important and interesting, 

 though difficult and intricate, science of pathology, will clearly 

 realise how considerable is the amount of cautious judgment 

 which is necessary before we apply to two diseases, occurring 

 respectively in two different kinds of animals, the same desig- 

 nation. 



