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These results are very reassuring for such veterinarians 
as are liable to be brought into frequent contact with glan¬ 
ders, showing conclusively as they do, that the simplest meas¬ 
ures of cleanliness are perfectly sufficient to protect those 
whose skin may have become soiled with a glanderous dis¬ 
charge. 
Reappearance of Tuberculosis in Maine. —The State 
of Maine has suffered largely from the prevalence of tubercu¬ 
losis amongst her cattle, and it is but a few years since 
that Dr. Bailey, the veterinarian of the State Cattle 
Commission, condemned a large number of cows as 
suffering from the disease, and condemned the entire herd to 
destruction. It was then hoped and expected that by careful 
watching it would be possible to escape further loss and dam¬ 
age from the disease, but the necessary vigilance, and the 
wise suggestions of the doctor were not sufficiently heeded, 
and with the introduction of a new supply of cows, together 
with that of seven cattle bought in Massachusetts , the disease 
has reappeared, and once again the State may be made to suf¬ 
fer from the widely diffused malady. 
In procuring them from Massachusetts, they were pro¬ 
cured from a State which, according to the Doctor, is “ full of 
the disease ; ” infested to such an extent, indeed, that he u be¬ 
lieves that from thirty-five to fifty per cent, of her cattle pop¬ 
ulation are infected.” 
The large experience with tuberculosis acquired by Doc¬ 
tor Bailey renders this estimate every way reliable, and 
strongly corroborates our own opinion, already repeatedly 
expressed on other occasions in columns of the Review. Our 
statements have been attacked by persons who have had but 
scant opportunities for the substantiation of their criticisms, 
and as a partial answer to their strictures, we again refer these 
friends to the words of the State Veterinarian of Maine, which 
we have just quoted. No doubt we could obtain more and 
additional support for our views, if we felt inclined to inquire, 
not only from almost every State in the Union, but even from 
Massachusetts itself, from whence came the undeserved criti¬ 
cism of our statement to the Fifth International Veterinary 
