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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
human food whether for consumption in the United States or 
abroad. 
Blood Specimens of Pernicious Anaemia. —U. found in 
more than 20 cases of pernicious anaemia, outside of the ordi¬ 
nary nucleated red corpuscles, megalo and normoblasts, also red 
blood corpuscles with small bluish colored nucleoli either very 
small or larger and aggravated. These nucleoli are seldom so 
numerous as to be visible without special search being made for 
them. Only once has U. seen this picture on a single case of 
leucaemia, never in the severest cases of secondary anaemia ex¬ 
cept in one instance of haemophilia, in which, however, it was not 
shown that the secondary anaemia changed into the pernicious 
form. These nuclei can only be seen by the methyl-blue- 
rosin stain, never in fresh specimens of blood. A. says these 
blueish nuclei are the result of disintegration of the ordinary nu¬ 
clei.—( Berl . Thierarzt. Wock.) 
The Cattle Commissioners of Maine.—A meeting of 
the Maine Cattle Commissioners (Hon. F. O. Beal, of Bangor, 
Hon. John M. Deering, of Saco, and Dr. George H. Bailey, of 
Deering) was held in the Bangor House on Wednesday night, 
Dec. 30, to close the business of the year and discuss the situa¬ 
tion of affairs. The commissioners have made arrangements 
wheteby any one in the milk business who desires his herd tested, 
in order to secure an official certificate of health, may do so by noti¬ 
fying the commissioners and by complying with the rules and reg¬ 
ulations, which are that the cattle be properly tested, the owner 
paying the expense of the test, fia head. The State takes charge of 
all diseased cattle, certificates being granted only to a healthy herd. 
Every consumer of milk should demand that the person who 
supplies it shall have a health certificate. On Tuesday Commis¬ 
sioner Beal caused 15 cows in a herd of 19, belonging to C. H. 
Patterson, of Hampden Centre, to be killed. A diseased cow had 
been previously found in Mr. Patterson’s herd, and it was at his 
request that a thorough examination of all the cattle was made. 
Three cows in a herd of eight in Bangor were also killed. Other 
cases are suspected to exist and will soon be investigated. In 
Westbrook between 40 and 50 thoroughbred cattle owned by 
Alonzo Uibby will be destroyed later. 
PRACTICE FOR SALE—CHEAP. 
A well-paying practice in Illinois, on account of sickness. Will sell with or without 
horses, barn, etc. Address “ PRACTICE,” care of American Veterinary Review, 
141 West 54th Street, New York City. 
