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The treatment is of but little importance to us as veterin¬ 
arians, as the only proper course to pursue is to destroy all ani¬ 
mals as soon as found to be tuberculous. With the medical 
profession the matters must be viewed from a different stand¬ 
point, for in their patients treatment must be attempted. 
Many remedies, both new and old, have been tried, but all 
have failed. 
Dr. Yeo, of the King College, London, and others have 
great faith in the use of creosote by inhalation, and large doses 
by the rectum, claiming to have gotten good results when the 
treatment was applied in the early stages of the disease. 
Drs. Bertin and Picq claim to have effected a cure in a limited 
number of cases by injecting goats milk when all classical treat¬ 
ment had failed. Prof. Liebreich, of Germany, claims to have 
successfully treated a few cases by the hypodermic use of can- 
tharidate of potash. 
Aristol in olive oil has been used hypodermically; its advo¬ 
cates claiming a certain degree of success. The so-called 
“ Amic treatment,” which at present is a secret, originated in 
Cincinnati, but from reports of local physicians has no curative 
effect. The Modern Medicine and Bacteriological World quotes 
an article from the Pacific Record in 1892, announcing a new 
chemical substance which Kiebs prepares from Koch’s tubercu¬ 
lin, and which he names tuberculocidin. It is nothing more nor 
less than tuberculin with its injurious elements eliminated, and 
at the same time retaining its curative properties. It causes no 
elevation of temperature when injected into the system. In fact 
it is claimed that large doses reduce the temperature Out of a 
number of human subjects treated, Kiebs claims to have cured 
18.6 %, improved 60 %, no improvement 18.6 %, deaths 2.6 %. 
This is really a very good record, but as no further announce¬ 
ments have been made we may reasonably suppose that further 
experiments with this substance have not proved satisfactory. 
When Koch announced his discovery of tuberculin in 1890, 
we were for a time led to believe that a cure for tuberculosis was 
at last at hand. Disappointment, however, was the result. In 
