RECENT WORK IN VETERINARY BACTERIOLOGY, ETC. 
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But they think differently in France, where the priest in the 
church and the singer and dancer in the opera, alike with the 
staff in the college, look for their salaries to the State exchequer 
box. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
RECENT WORK IN VETERINARY BACTERIOLOGY AND 
PATHOLOGY. 
By Wm. T. Gottheil. 
Perhaps the most important recent work in the domain of 
veterinary pathology is that of Prof. Th. Kitt on the mykofibro- 
mata of the horse and its relation to the micrococcus ascofor- 
maus. A condensed account of the results of his researches may 
be of interest. 
The malady is not uncommon in the horse, and is seen also in 
the sheep and goat. The tumors vary much in size and number, 
and whilst in the first named animal the inflammation always 
causes the formation of a small-celled new growth, a true granu¬ 
loma, in the others the process usually goes on to acute inflam¬ 
mation and abcess formation. 
Under the name of mykodesemoid (Johne), the affection is 
now well recognized by veterinarians. 
Bollinger first demonstrated the specific organism in 1870, 
finding them in nodules in the lungs of a horse affected with the 
disease. He considered them, however, to be fungi, and from 
the manner of their aggregation designated them zooglea pul¬ 
monis equi. 
Later, Professor Johne, of Dresden, during his investigation 
of chronic spermatic funiculitis in the horse, noticed that the 
tumors (the so-called champignons) which sometimes appear after 
castration, were evidently of infectious origin. They are met 
with somewhat frequently under the aspect of a chronic funicu¬ 
litis, and are characterized by the appearance of fibromatous 
