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MISCELLANEA. 
unerring law of nature in the long run, with the presence of such 
in your herd, you will be perpetually afflicted with the produc- 
tion of animals, which by hereditary descent, sympathy, and the 
thousand accidents springing from association, will be neither cre- 
ditable to your good breeding, nor satisfactory to yourself. 
Feed well — not lavishly. Your cows should be in good breed- 
ing condition — nothing more ; and your bulls in fair working order. 
Such is the condition most consonant to nature, and promotive of the 
highest animal health. The scale of points laid down in our intro- 
duction, with the occasional remarks on the practice of breeders, 
as we have passed in our history, detail what a good animal should 
be. These, together with a close examination of the general figure 
of good cattle, will aid the judgment of the breeder. With a well- 
balanced judgment of his own, and a sound experience, they will 
be a safe guide, and he will go on his way rejoicing. 
To breed successfully requires skill, talent, research, obser- 
vation ; and all of these of high order. 
American Herd Book. 
Syphilis in Animals. 
[From the Lancet.] 
A CORRESPONDENT points out to us an assertion made by 
M. Crellevier in the Archives Gentrales de Medtcine , and reported 
at page 203 of Dr Ranking’s “ Abstract,” vol. ii, respecting sy- 
philis in the lower animals. 
“ Syphilis. — M. Crellevier has lately performed a series of ex- 
periments in order to determine the inoculability of the lower 
animals with the syphilitic poison. The result of repeated trials 
upon monkeys, guinea-pigs, &c. appears to be that the disease in 
question is confined to the human race, as in no instance was the 
experimenter enabled to communicate the disease.” 
I believe, from having paid no small attention to the habit of 
animals, &c. that I am in a position to prove that a disease analo- 
gous to syphilis afflicting mankind is frequently met with severely 
affecting and rapidly proving destructive to life among rabbits, & c. 
Farriers style it the “ foul disease,” and by them it is well 
known to be infectious, and all intercourse by connexion is strictly 
prohibited. Their remedy is blue ointment both for the male and 
female rabbits. 
In the male, if the disease be not quickly arrested b) r the appli- 
cation of mercurial ointment, it readily spreads and destroys the 
penis by ulceration, accompanied by considerable discharge. He 
soon refuses his food, his coat stands erect, and he withdraws to 
