DISEASES OF THE OX AND SHEEP. 357 



cultivation from the heart's blood of the animals dead as a result 

 of the inoculation or the feeding. 



It was clear that the action of the cultures of this micro- 

 coccus of the condensed milk upon calves after feeding or 

 inoculation is identical with the action of the cultures of the 

 micrococcus derived from human scarlatina. 



-Finally, from observations in regard to a monkey which died 

 at Wimbledon during a scarlatina outbreak there, it was proved 

 that the cultures of the micrococcus derived from the Wimbledon 

 monkey, and which proved to be identical in morphological and 

 structural characters with the micrococcus scarlatinse, acted on 

 mice in precisely the same manner as those of the micrococcus 

 obtained from the Hendon cow and from the human source. 

 Also, like the latter, the cultivated organism acted more decidedly 

 on house-mice than on tame ones. 



MALIGNANT CATAHRHAL FEVER. PURPURA 

 HiEMORRAGICA. TETANUS. 



The Rev. Dr. A. Jessop, in the March number of the 

 Nineteenth Century, 1887, writes : — *' * How often do you give it 

 meat ? ' said a blushing, mild-eyed, lank-haired young worthy 

 in my hearing the other day. 'Lawk! sir, that don't have no 

 meat,' answered the laughing mother, as she hugged her tiny 

 baby closer to her bosom. * Never have meat ? How dreadful ! '" 



Scientific treatise without an anecdote or something to relieve 

 the weighty monotone of science — how terrible I Neverthless, 

 in the space at our command it is difficult to bear in mind always 

 that our pen must not be a heavy one if we are to do real 

 and lasting good. None knew this better than Sir Walter Scott, 

 who, at the close of his first chapter of Waverley, points out that 

 the moral lessons which he would willingly consider as the most 

 important part of his plan, will certainly fall short of their aim 

 if he should be found unable to mix them with amusement — a 

 task not quite so easy in this critical generation as it was " sixty 

 years since." Indeed, there are but few writers who have not 

 realised hov/ stringently necessary it is to catch the public eye, 

 if they are in any way desirous of doing good work for the 

 people. 



In this connection the words of the Eev. J. G. Wood, in the 

 same number of the same review, are so good as to bear reitera- 



