BACCILLUS BRONCHICANIS, CAUSE OF CANINE DISTEMPER. 
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ing now and then, sporadically or epizootically, other animals? 
Or is it a disease widespread among animals, with no one species 
as its regular host ? 
I will not go into detail in this article as to the symptoma¬ 
tology of the disease as found in animals other than dogs, or at¬ 
tempt to prove at this time that we are dealing with a disease 
common among several species of animals and not a local epi¬ 
zootic. I believe, however, now that McGowan has found an or¬ 
ganism common to dogs, as well as other animals, which organ¬ 
ism he claims to be identical to mine, and that I have found my 
organism to be the cause of a very serious condition among dogs, 
guinea pigs, rabbits and monkeys, that the name Bacillus bronchi- 
canis is not quite the proper name with which to describe this 
organism of mine. I therefore propose to change it so that it can 
be applied to the organism as found in any animal, and shall call 
it hereafter Bacillus bronchisepticus. 
REFERENCES: 
Ferry, American Veterinary Review, July, 1910. 
Ferry, Jour, of Inf. Dis., No. 4, June, 1911. 
M’Gownan, Jour, of Path. & Bad., Vol. XV, 1911. 
Not His Fault. Racehorse Owner (to jockey, who has 
only managed to come in fourth)—You duffer, didn’t I tell you 
to keep about third until the last few hundred yards, and then 
come away and win? 
Jockey—But I couldn’t come away without the bloomin’ ’oss, 
sir, could I ?—( Tit-Bits.) 
Dr. E. D. Hudson, of Gettysburg, Pa., writes: 
Your reminder came to-day, 
And my remittance, without delay, 
I send to you, my good old friend, 
For the 1912 Review please send. 
It gives me pleasure to read it through, 
That good old American Veterinary Review, 
For it’s the best I read in years gone by; 
To do without it I won’t try. 
