894 The American Naturalist. [October, 
Now I make bold to say, and do it with an experience extend- 
ing over 1500 swine, on every one of which careful autopsies 
were made, that no man can examine not sixty but ten swine in 
this country in a large outbreak, where a pestiferous disease is 
raging and the loss anywhere from thirty to seventy per cent., and 
not find a majority of the cases presenting some form of a 
caseous, ulcerative or follicular lesion in the large intestines. 
This should be evidence enough that the two diseases are not 
identical. 
This Baltimore authority (who, by the way, is an almost en- 
tirely unknown quantity in the annals of bacteriology, for which 
assertion I refer the reader to the Annual Report previously 
quoted), and the scientific Department of Agriculture of this 
country, as well the members of the celebrated " Board of Inquiry," 
have, as is well known, done their utmost to injure the swine 
interest of the west by publishing to the world that the Govern- 
ment swine plague is identical with the German Schweine-seuche. 
It has been shown that had the government stuck to its original 
text, that its swine plague was a pneumonia only, it had all the 
evidence on its side. But it has also been shown that the gov- 
ernment did not stick to its text, that its assertions have been 
neither accurate nor scientific, and that in its swine plague there 
were to be found fully as severe intestinal lesions as in the real 
hog-cholera, and the Board of Inquiry even went so far as to 
endorse this view. It even asserted that both the germs of the 
government pest and the hog-cholera produce almost identically 
the same lesions (I cannot see where they differ), and 
they both can be in one and the same hog at one and the 
Poor piggy ! 
Compare this latter statement with all the examinations of 
German observers. 
Can we find anywhere a particle of evidence in favor of any 
such peculiar condition of things ? 
Thus far we have been unable to find any evidence of but one 
disease and one form of micro-organismal etiological life, and all 
the evidence goes to show that pulmonary lesions are its specific 
