SOME EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES 
ON THE USE OF MALLEINE. 
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ciation, Prof. F. L. Kilborne, of Washington, D. C., called the 
attent.on of the Society to the report of' numerous experiments 
w ich had been made by him under the direction of the Bureau 
o nimal Industry at Washington, a complete rendering of 
which was published in extenso in the American Veterinary 
Review, vol. 16, page 437 and followings. 
It was to be hoped that the publicity given to the report of 
Prof, kilborne would have for its result the awakening among 
our confreres of America of a great desire to use malleine The 
results obtained by him at the experimental station had been 
so much m accord with those published in European journals 
the advantages that one might derive from its uses were so 
mamfest, the facility with which it could be obtained (the 
ureau of Animal Industry having offered to deliver it free of 
charge to all applicants), all these reasons were more than 
sufficient to justify the belief that many among us would in the 
uture consider malleine as a weapon, indispensable to the 
armory of the veterinarian. But, must I acknowledge it I I 
believe there is nothing of the kind—and, with few exceptions, 
malleine. has not yet entered into the practical domaine of our 
veterinary medicine—differing much in that respect from tuber- 
culine, which, from the fact of the enofmous quantity of tuber¬ 
culous cows found in our private dairies, has been in such de- 
mand for the last few months. 
Ill making such a statement, I must say that I believe my¬ 
self justified, because, having in hand a quantity of imported 
malleine, and having offered it gratuitously to my confreres 
here, my offer remained entirely ignored ; and, again, because 
our veterinary journals have contained but very little report on 
the subject which would be of any value, and if there are 
records made they may be published in those of the Bureau of 
Animal Industry, of which I am not aware. * 
With this brief history relating to the use of malleine in the 
* Since this was written, an article by Prof. Harger, of Philadelphia, was pub 
lished in the Veterinary Alagazine. 
