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the nature of swine plague, and the other upon the pathological 
lesions of that disease. There are still other micro-organisms be¬ 
longing to the same group, such as those of rabbit and mouse 
septicaemia, and the disease of wild and some domestic animals— 
deer, cattle and swine—known in Germany as the “ wildseuche,” 
(to which Hueppe has lately given the name of u septicaemia 
haemorrhagica ”), and, according to Hueppe, hen cholera also. 
My chief reason for considering the question of the nature of 
the swine plague organism in advance of my full report to the 
regents of this University—which will be postponed until the 
whole story is completed—is that Hueppe has lately endeavored 
to show that all the diseases mentioned by him are etiologically 
identical, because of the similarity of the morpho and biological 
phenomena of their germs under artificial conditions of life. 
The reason also of my introducing the two “ unknowns,”—as 
I will call the bacteria previously mentioned—here is simply to 
say that if Hueppe is correct in classifying the micro-organisms 
of the disease mentioned by him as one and the same thing, he 
would be equally justified in claiming the same for these two 
unknown germs; for they are as nearly like the others in their 
morphological and cultivation appearances as those mentioned by 
Hueppe are to each other ; it would also be just as logical, sup¬ 
posing these unknowns to be the cause of rabies and Texas fever, 
respectively, to assert that these two diseases are identical with 
the German “ wildseuche ” as it is for him to claim that the 
“ wildseuche,” “ rabbit and mouse septicaemia,” “ hen cholera,” 
and the German and even American swine plague are etiolog¬ 
ically identical diseases; that is, caused by one and the same 
micro-organism. 
(To be continued .) 
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INJECTION OF PURE TINCTURE OF IODINE IN SALIVARY 
FISTULAS. 
The injection of irritating substances into the ducts of the 
salivary glands, that of Stenon especially, in many instances proved 
to be the best mode of treatment in cases of salivary fistulae re- 
