25S 
SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
calculation as to the extent of the disease and the economic loss 
which it has entailed. The Bureau of Animal Industry report for 
1908 gives tabulation of 400,008 cattle tested by Federal and 
State officers, with 37,000 reactors, or 9.25 per cent. Of the re¬ 
actors 24,984 were slaughtered and 93-39 per cent, were found 
tuberculous. 
From many sources the propaganda of education is reaching 
the people and having its effect. Federal, State and municipal 
laws looking to the control of tuberculosis, if too far in advance 
of the people, will not be enforced, but are in themselves educa¬ 
tional. From all sources come evidence of a stronger determina¬ 
tion to wage a relentless warfare against the bacillus tuberculosis 
along scientific lines. The ophthalmic test for tuberculosis, with 
few exceptions, is not looked upon with favor in this country. 
Dr. B. F. Kaupp has recently tested all of the hogs on the Colo¬ 
rado State College farm by the subcutaneous method, and reports 
the test as satisfactory in every way.- Dr. D. F. Luckey reports 
that after giving the intradermal tuberculin test a severe trial and 
verifying it by the subcutaneous test he is satisfied that it is a de¬ 
cided success and has many advantages. The people are becom¬ 
ing aroused from their lethargy as to the danger from tubercu¬ 
losis in animals, as well as to its economic importance, and are 
beginning to have faith in the reliability of the tuberculin test. 
V Several investigators of repute are working with infectious 
anemia, and progress made in the last year in determining the 
etiology and means of control has not been very encouraging. 
The most important thing in this connection is the report of Dr. 
L. Van Es in regard to the transmission of infection through the 
urine. The reported increase in prevalence of this disease is not 
substantiated, and is probably due to the fact that the disease is 
more easily and generally recognized. 
While most of the States have appropriated liberally for the 
purpose of eradicating glanders, the disease still prevails. The 
reason for this lies essentially in the fact that glanders is an in¬ 
sidious disease and from its nature cannot be recognized, save in 
the typical form and in the last stages. Wonderful strides have 
b^en made in the diagnosis of glanders, which portends its early 
recognition and possible control. At the present time we have no 
less ffhan seven, more or less, reliable methods of diagnosing 
glanders. As I remember them, these methods have been revealed 
in about the following order: First, diagnosis by clinical symp¬ 
toms and the macroscopic and microscopic study of lesions; sec- 
