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made to show whether or not susceptible cattle imported 
south would be exempt from Texas fever if kept absolutely 
free from tick invasion. That the tick is not a necessary in¬ 
termediate host of the Texas fever parasite is shown by the 
possibility of conveying the disease from affected to healthy 
cattle by inoculation. Southern cattle are infested by more 
than one species of tick, although that described as Boophilus 
Bovis , Curtice, is by far the most abundant. One test which 
1 made of another species taken from southern cattle seemed 
to indicate that it was destitute of virulence. 
“ As to the nature of the Texas fever germ, we are all 
willing, 1 think, to accept the conclusions of Dr. Theobald 
Smith. His researches in an extremely difficult field of work 
have shown us that Texas fever in cattle corresponds to 
malarial fever in mankind, and especially, as has recently 
been suggested by Dr. Harbaugh, to that severe form of 
malaria which is known as hmmmorrhagic malarial fever. 
It is possible that it may be in a measure successfully com¬ 
batted by the same treatment employed in that disease, 
namely, by a very large dose of quinine. Hitherto in my 
attempts at treatment 1 have generally employed this remedy, 
but only in moderate doses and not with much success.” 
INCIPIENT BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS, 
MAY IT NOT BE JUDICIOUSLY AND ECONOMICALLY TREATED? 
By A. S. Heath, M.D..V.S., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
The relation of milk and meat to human health is so im¬ 
portant a matter in the economy of life that the public should 
demand the best sanitary regulations to secure immunity from 
infectious diseases of our flocks and herds and their products. 
We have many advantages in the management of our domes¬ 
tic animals in maintaining them in health, over the relative 
conditions and environment of mankind. We can breed 
healthy progeny by sedulously breeding from absolutely 
healthy progenitors. In the human race, the medical profes¬ 
sion cannot secure sanitary marital relations to prevent the 
transmission of hereditary diseases—the veriest bane of the 
