SUNDRIES. 
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Culosem Schlachtvieh. Centralblatt f. Bakteriol. u . Para- 
ntenk ., Bd. xi., No. 14.)—Perroncito, who as early as 1874 and 
1875 {Ann. der kgl. Akad. /. Landwirthschaft in Turin , Bd. 
xviii., 1875) stated his belief in the absence of any danger to 
those eating the flesh of tubercular animals from the trans¬ 
mission of the disease, calls up his former position to corrob- 
Drate it from a richer experience. During 1890-91 he con¬ 
ducted an extensive series of experiments upon guinea-pigs, 
puppies, pigs, and horned cattle, which was summarized be¬ 
fore the International Congress of Hygiene in London, and 
m the congress at Paris for the study of tuberculosis, dur¬ 
ing the last summer. The meat obtained from the public 
daughter-houses in Turin was led in several experiment 
groups to pigs, and the juices were injected into puppies, 
guinea-pigs, and cattle. More than two hundred puppies and 
quite as many guinea-pigs were subjected to these experi¬ 
ments, the meat-juice, or a watery extract of the meat, being 
injected subcutaneously or into the abdominal cavity. After 
intervals of six weeks, two, three, or more months, these an¬ 
imals were killed, not a trace of tuberculosis being evident. 
Two cattle were subjected to subcutaneous injection of the 
meat-juice, and when killed, six months later, showed no sign 
of the disease. Four pigs, six months old, were fed for four 
months on the flesh from tubercular cattle, without exhibit¬ 
ing the least evidence of acquirement of the affection. A lit¬ 
ter of twelve pigs, aged two months, were fed for five 
months on the flesh from tubercular cattle; several died from 
other diseases, and the rest were all killed at varying periods,, 
without any tubercular lesions being found. Two pigs were 
fed for three months on flesh from tubercular animals, and 
afterwards fed with tissues in various grades of tubercular 
changes; when killed they showed not the least evidence of 
having acquired tuberculosis. 
Great Mortality Among Horses in Russia. —The ter¬ 
rible famine which has prevailed in Russia since last Autumn, 
producing such dreadful results among the human popu¬ 
lation, has been also very disastrous to horses. In the British 
consul’s report on trade and commerce in Taganrog, just is¬ 
sued from the Foreign Office, in reference tc the effect of the 
