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imported by Schulze, Berge & Koechl of New York. This was 
diluted with a i% solution of carbolic acid in distilled water. 
My prescription for, say nine mature cows, is as follows : 
Tuberculin, six minims. 
Carbolic solution, eighty-four minims. 
Dose of the above, ten minims. 
I inject the agent under the skin of the creature’s neck, 
the skin is looser here, thinner and more easily pierced; besides 
the operator can stand further from the cow’s hind foot. 
Would it not be as well if observers, in speaking of the 
quantities they use, express themselves in minims and drachms 
instead of using measures of the metric system? They would 
be more readily understood by forty-nine out of every fifty 
veterinarians, and besides woul.d be after all only using the 
standard in general use in the country. 
FUSION OF TEMPORARY INFERIOR MOLARS WITH INFERIOR 
MAXILLA IN THE HORSE. 
By Prof. W. L. Williams, D.V.S. 
In a previous paper* the abnormal adhesion of temporary 
teeth was suggested as a possible factor in producing aberrations 
in the development of permanent teeth. 
Not long after contributing the article cited, a case presented 
itself which was quite unique, and although odontomes did not 
result in so far as aberration in the disposition of dental tissues 
were concerned, effects of an equally profound character were 
produced which go far to demonstrate that these abnormally 
adhesive temporary crowns may and do cause odontomes in 
some cases. 
The patient was a medium sized, well-formed grade French 
draft gelding but three years. He had been worked for some 
months in a coal wagon, and when presented for treatment was 
in poor condition, because of the pathological conditions rather 
than of excessive labor. 
* A Clinical Study of Odontomes. —Am. Vet. Review, Vol. XV., No. i. 
