844 ANALYSIS OF CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 
tained by the owners of cattle in consequence of the negli- 
gence of owners of diseased or infected animals, whereby the 
malady has been communicated to their stock. 
In some parts of the country energetic action has been 
taken, under the provisions of the Act, with good results; but 
in the majority of cases the measures which have been adopted 
have been feeble in character and ineffectual in operation. 
It must be admitted that the whole results of legislation 
which w*as directed to the prevention of the spread of pleuro- 
pneumonia have not been satisfactory; nor is it probable 
that the malady will be eradicated unless recourse be had to 
preventive means as stringent as those which were found to 
be necessary to effect the extermination of the cattle plague. 
Journal of the Bath and West of England and 
Southern Counties. 
Analysis of Continental Journals. 
By G. Fleming, M.R.C.V.S., Royal Engineers. 
STUDY ON TINEA EAVOSA IN THE DOMESTICATED 
ANIMALS. 
By M. E. Saint-Cyr, Professor at the Lyons Veterinary School. 
(Continued from p. 748.) 
Experiments relative to the transmission of Tinea from one 
animal to another . — These experiments, already somewhat 
numerous, were undertaken, not only with the view of 
assuring myself as to the contagiousness of the disease — a 
fact that the evidently parasitical nature of the affection 
would, a priori, have sufficiently attested — but also to study 
the characteristics of Tinea at its commencement, clinical 
observation alone not permitting this to be done, for, as I 
have already said, the malady is nearly always of some dura- 
tion when our advice is sought. The following is the way in 
which I conducted these experiments, which are generally 
successful, if care is taken to choose proper subjects — that is, 
young animals. 
On a part of the body which the creature cannot readily 
reach with its paws — as the top of the head — the hair is 
cut as short as possible over a space equal to the size of a one- 
or two-franc piece ; on this is applied a mild vesicatory, such 
