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Diseases of Women and Children. The zoological ma- 
terial was obtained at this laboratory and at the Academy 
of Natural Sciences. 
In December, 1914, I published a series of observations 
upon cirrhoses of the liver in wild animals {New York 
Medical Journal, December 19, 1914). It was possible 
to collect seventeen cases of hepatic cirrhoses among 
the 3200 autopsies then on record. Of these seventeen, 
ten were of the biliary form, now generally conceded 
to be due to infectious processes following the biliary 
tract, and in all probability originating in intestinal 
lesions. This is important when considered in con- 
nection with the knowledge of the frequency of enteritis, 
especially of the upper small intestines. 
On the other hand, the portal or so-called atrophic 
cirrhoses so usually associated with lues, gout and in- 
organic poisons in man, were found only four times. 
None of these cases of cirrhosis were diagnosed before 
death, and from the history it is doubtful if more than 
one or two cases would have been recognized had un- 
limited handling of the animals been possible. 
Continued work upon the conjunctival test for tuber- 
culosis in birds has given no reliable result. Some 
suspected parrots were tested, with negative results. A 
series of pigeons were injected with known avian tubercle 
bacilli and upon development of lesions were tested by 
dropping tuberculin made from avian and bovine bacilli 
into the conjunctival sac. Healthy controls were also 
tested. Now and then a slight redness would appear 
both in healthy and tuberculous birds, but no definite 
reaction resulted. Some observers have had positive 
results, while others have had nothing more definite 
than I have had. The reasons for this difference is not 
clear. The intracutaneous test in the comb, for birds 
having this appendage, seems more reliable. 
At the end of the year I am investigating the quail 
epidemic and studying the lesions of the pancreas in 
wild animals. Scientific material has been supplied from 
the laboratory to Dr. McClung and to Dr. A. J. Smith. 
