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new material, i.e. young pheasants affected with the 

 " cramps," and am, therefore, unable to say anything 

 further on this subject. But of this I am clear, that 

 the disease is in pathological respects a well-defined, 

 acute periostitis and osteomyelitis, and that it is 

 associated^ with a definite and well -characterised 

 species of bacilli, present in the inflamed bone, and 

 obtainable in all cases by cultivation. 



