28 
GEORGE C. FAYILLE. 
issue a short treatise on the subject in popular language, free 
from technicalities, giving the common name of the disease 
in each locality and embracing the nature, characteristics, 
causes, so far as known, and the preventive measures, includ¬ 
ing the best means known of destroying ticks, more practical 
benefit would result than has followed the valuable work of 
the Bureau on this disease up to date. Such a publication 
should not be entrusted to Congressmen for distribution, but 
should be sent to postmasters and country merchants through¬ 
out the regions directly concerned for distribution to cattle 
owners. 
During the coming year Prof. Niles and myself will be 
your committee on this disease, and as our work is now out¬ 
lined and better understood, we hope to be able to present a 
report of some value to the members of the Association. 
OSTEOPOROSIS. 
By Dr. Geo. C. Faville, Norfolk, Va. 
A Paper read before the Virginia State Veterinary Medical Association, at 
Richmond, January 2, 1896. 
The term osteoporosis, it seems to me, is more or less a 
misnomer. Indicating as it does a porous condition of bone, 
fails to convey any accurate idea of the pathological condi¬ 
tion found in this disease. There is upon the part of many 
writers a tendency to confound the disease which we com¬ 
monly speak of as osteoporosis with other diseases, which 
may result in a porous condition of the bone. For instance, 
the mycelium threads of actinomycosis as they affect the 
maxillary bones of cattle, produce a condition which might 
quite readily and probably quite often is mistaken for osteo¬ 
porosis, when the microscope would demonstrate at once the 
true nature of the disease. 
I am well aware that I shall open a wide field for discus¬ 
sion by the position that I shall take ; but discussion is what 
we want, and the aim of my paper is to form a groundwork 
for intelligent controversy. 
1 think that there has been a great deal of unnecessary 
