ACTINOMYCOSIS. 
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ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
ACTINOMYCOSIS. 
By J. Soott, V.S., Peoria, Ill. 
A Paper read before the Illinois State Veterinary Association. 
In choosing this subject for my essay to-day I did not do 
so thinking to bring out anything new or original in regard 
to the disease; and as the literature on the subject is rather 
meagre, I hope you will excuse the brevity of my remarks. 
To a paper on this disease published in pamphlet form, by 
Dr. George Fleming, also one by Dr. George A. Bodamer, 
published in the Journal of Comparative Medicine aud Surgery , 
I am indebted for the most of my quotations, and these arti¬ 
cles, together with my personal observations of the disease, 
will form the basis of my remarks. 
An erroneous idea prevails among people in general, and 
veterinarians also, that this disease occurs only in a sporadic 
form, and that few cattle are affected with it. But when I state 
that here in Peoria there have been over two hundred cases of 
it during the last six months, that at the stock yards in Chi¬ 
cago there is an average of from seventy-five to one hundred 
cases every month, at the Kansas City .stock yards about the 
same number, and at other cattle centres throughout the 
country about the same percentage of cases in proportion to 
the number of cattle handled, it will be seen that it is preva¬ 
lent to a far greater extent than most people imagine, and 
though there has been considerable publicity given to the 
subject through the medium of the press, more especially the 
Chicago press, during the last few months, yet I imagine that 
were the general public aware that the disease exists to as 
great an extent as it does and knew the true character of the 
disease, public opinion on the subject would be such that it 
would demand that the most stringent measures be adopted 
for its suppression and prevention. 
A number of the most eminent pathologists and micro- 
scopists of the present time have demonstrated, by scientific 
