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than I ever saw it in a fluid cultivation. I consider these manure 
deposits from anthrax-diseased cattle a more serious source of im¬ 
mediate danger to other cattle than the buried cadaver. Under 
such circumstances as the above—temperature 98 to 100° F.,— 
this spore development continues day and night until the action 
of the sun has so dried the mass that it has not moisture enough 
to favor the development further. During this time flies light 
upon it, and may then bite the cattle. They may tread in it with 
wounds in their skin, and Anally—which is the most dangerous 
of all—the mass becomes broken up and is reduced to dust, and 
millions of death dealing germs are spread about the field. 
(To be continued .) 
COMPARATIVE LESIONS OF BRAIN WOUNDS, 
By Dr. G. Archie Stock well, F.Z.S. 
(Written especially for the American Veterinary Review.) 
(Continued from page 307 .) 
Careful consideration of the facts in evidence reveals that sur¬ 
gery is constantly invoked for the evacuation of purulent matter 
in regions of the economy where the ratio of mortality is consid¬ 
erably greater than lias ever occurred to brain wounds; there¬ 
fore it behooves us to inquire what anatomical or physiological 
peculiarity pertains to the nervous system that it alone should be 
especially exempt! We are no longer bound by the superstition 
that the ventricles are the “ apartments,” and the sinuses the 
“ einunctories of the soul;” nor does the festiche } in scientific cir¬ 
cles at least, yet gain credence that the cerebrum is the seat of 
organism, and each of its fragmentary portions the definite deriv¬ 
ative of a function. Note the history of cranial injuries and the 
strenuous efforts put forth by Nature towards their repair—efforts 
so frequently successful despite the adverse prognosis of science. 
Recall the experiments of Dalton, as found in his text book of 
“Physiology ,” and the demonstration that the brain was but a 
part of the universal organism ; that the removal of lobes in their 
entirety does not necessarily result in cessation of Life ; that al- 
