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this direction, and says that he has found in the aqueous 
humor of bovines the bacillus of Koch, existing with the 
lesions, generalized or local, of the lungs, pleura, bronchial 
g anas, mesenteric glands, spleen, liver, whether in local erup¬ 
tions or general manifestations. 
In other words the aqueous humor has always been found 
well provided with the Koch microbe in all cases of gene¬ 
ralized disease, and in those where it remained localized 
to the thoracic or abdominal organs, or localized to the lung's 
or only to the liver. 
Consequently the author concludes : the examination of 
t e aqueous humor is an excellent way to establish the early 
diagnosis of the disease when symptoms are yet indefinite in 
their expression. 
. ^ he puncture of the cornea with a sterilized glass pipette 
is the simplest operation which will allow the gathering of a 
sufficient quantity of the humor for examination.—^. de 
Biolog. 
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TWO CASES OF EQUINE TUBERCULOSIS. 
By E. Faulkner, M.R.C.V.S., Manchester. 
In view of the alleged rarity of tuberculosis in the horse, 
1 think it right to put on record the two following cases, 
which have come under my observation within the last two 
months. 
Case 1 .—Regarding the clinical history of this case I am, 
unfortunately, not able to give very minute details, as the 
animal was not during his illness under my care. The facts 
that I have been able to ascertain on this head are the follow- 
mg: 
The subject was a black draught gelding about eleven 
years old. He had been in possession of the same firm for 
over five years ; and, save for the three months preceding his 
death, he had during the whole of that period been in good 
health, condition and spirits. He was a good worker, and 
was regularly employed in carting hides from the different 
skin yards to the railway station. 
