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R. MIDDLETON. 
It may be that Dr. Butler is correct in his assertion that 
the Traube-Rosenberg theory of eclampsia in woman is gener¬ 
ally discarded by human writers of the present day, but from 
the limited amount of literature on the subject at hand it 
seems that they have not all discarded it nor do we see cleail^ 
upon what grounds he bases his statement. Admitting, how¬ 
ever, his correctness in the matter of majority of adheients to 
a given theory, he is wholly in error in the assumption that 
this theory of brain oedema and consequential anaemia is 
wholly “ borrowed ” from human medicine and rests foi its 
force upon such an origin. This theory has a goodly array 
ot facts to stand upon, wholly independent of eclampsia of 
woman, and further study of this disease in cows is quite 
likely to yet throw some light upon the pathology of the for¬ 
mer. The theory rests upon, ist, The exalted blood pressure 
and hydrasmia existent at period subject to attack, 2d, The 
class of animal in which this exaggeration would naturally be 
greatest; 3d, Semiology; 4 th , The results of treatment 
based upon this theory ; 5th, Pathological anatomy as revealed 
by autopsy. 
We are by no means certain that the disease we ventured 
to describe as parturient eclampsia in the mare is identical 
with the disease so named in woman, nor with apoplexy of 
cows, nor that any two of the three are the same, but in the 
present state of our knowledge we do believe that the major¬ 
ity of facts is favorable to the identity of the three. 
EXPERIMENTS WITH GLANDERS LYMPH, 
Translated by R. Middleton, A.M., D.V.S., Philadelphia, Pa. 
The specific reactions obtained from injections of lymph, 
produced from cultures of tubercle bacilli, in phthisical indi¬ 
viduals, has opened a new avenue to the ultimate eradication 
of infectious diseases, which promises to develop into a sub¬ 
ject of colossal importance. 
This principle, “ tuberculin,” discovered by Koch, has been 
applied in many cases, but only as a diagnostic adjunct. The 
