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of the cholera bacillus , although the cholera bacillus will grow 
readily in milk that has been sterilized ” (Conn). 
The generality of the flora of dairy bacteria are helpful, or 
harmless, while but few are baneful or disease-producing. It is 
therefore desirable to get milk fresh from healthy cows, at the 
earliest time possible, as no bovine or baneful bacteria come from 
healthy cows, fed on sound food and pure water in hygienic en¬ 
vironment. Even clean, pure milk, should be kept at a low 
temperature, as bacteria do not grow under such conditions. 
REPORTS OF CASES. 
TUBERCULAR DISEASE IN THE HORSE. 
By W. F. Derr, V. S., Wooster, Ohio. 
On Dec. 6th, 1895, I was called to see a large brown horse, 
by a man that makes it his business to feed and prepare horses 
for the Eastern markets, for the reason that he was not doing 
well. 
History. —“ I bought him early in the fall, with a lot of 
other horses that had arrived from the West. He had a cough 
at the time of purchase, and was somewhat thin in flesh, with 
but little ambition about him ; but I thought that he was prob¬ 
ably breeding some form of distemper. I treated him some for 
his cough, and general condition, from which treatment he 
seemed to improve some. I put him to some light work during 
the latter part of October, but he seemed to become fatigued on 
the least exertion, and at times would not be dry in the morning, 
after having performed an ordinary day’s labor. His cough is 
more troublesome than it was, does not lie down to rest, his 
appetite is fastidious—at one time good, at another, indifferent, 
never quite lost, however ; his spirits, like his appetite, are one 
day good, the next day or two, depressed ; shifts around on his 
legs a good deal, and seems to have a tired feeling.” Such was 
the history the owner gave me. 
Examination revealed the following : Pulse 60, temperature 
104, respirations 28, visible mucous membranes injected, slight 
discharge from the nose, enlargement of the submaxillary 
glands, right lung elicited nothing abnormal from percussion, 
and auscultation, half of the left lung solidified, eyes looked 
