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arians (i) we saw an extensive outbreak in the distillery cattle 
sheds of Peoria, Ill., in 1889, where inter-transmission appar¬ 
ently played a very important role. The extension of the dis¬ 
ease seemed due to the fact that badly affected animals were 
kept in the sheds with the healthy. Large abscesses about 
the throat and jaws, being irritated and abraded by contact 
with high mangers, discharged large quantities of actinomy- 
:es-containing pus, into the troughs, along which flowed the 
flops to neighboring cattle, and the inoculation of the healthy 
:attle was favored by their being supplied with very coarse, 
lard, wild hay, which evidently served to abrade the mouth 
ind pharynx. 
A long list of the leading scientists of the day might be 
quoted who believe in the contagiousness of actinomycosis, 
uch as Bollinger, Ponfick, Johne, Friedberger, Frohner' 
srael, Rosenbach, Dixzozen, Lendquist, Neller, Peroncito, 
Ochsner, Cruikshank, Fleming, Liautard, Law and others,' 
•Imost without number. In fact, it seems, in so far as your 
hairman has been able to learn, that contributors alike to 
tandard and current veterinary literature of a recent date 
re all agreed that the affection is contagious. We under, 
tand that Prof. Schwartzkopff and other dissenters have 
iven voice to their theories and deductions through the col. 
mns of the agricultural or live-stock press and avoided 
lacing their views in form or place where it would come 
dthin proper range of scientific criticism- We trust that 
ow, for once, Prof. Schwartzkopff and his colleagues will 
resent their non-contagious theory of actinomycosis before 
lis convention, from a scientific standpoint, aad permit their 
rguments to be weighed upon a strictly scientific as well as 
ractical basis. We desire that Prof. Schwartzkopff should 
illy explain his statement at our last meeting that he predi¬ 
cted his belief of the non-contagiousness of actinomycosis on 
is theoretical studies and his practical work in the great 
cattoirs of Berlin. What great veterinarians of Berlin taught 
ir fellow-committeeman that actinomycosis was non-conta- 
(1) Special Rep. State Bd. Live St’k Com., Illinois (Actinomycosis in Cat- 
0, 1890. 
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