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R. KOCH. 
False Rabies Due to Worms. —Lyon Medical gives a sum¬ 
mary of an article in the Journal des Connaissances Medicales , 
by Dr. A. Silvestrini, in which the author states that he has ob¬ 
served several cases of disease in dogs, especially hunting dogs, in 
Tuscany, infested with the Strongylus gig as. Among the symp¬ 
toms is a disposition to bite, the animal avoids the light, its mouth 
is red and frothing, its voice is hoarse, and its gait is vacillating. 
Its expression is that of suffering, rather than of ferocity. The 
condition is somewhat difficult to distinguish from rabies, but the 
occurrence of haematuria, from the lodgment of the parasite in 
the urinary passages, establishes the diagnosis. The disease is 
fatal, except in the rare cases in which the worm is expelled by 
the urethra. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
/ETIOLOGY OF TUBERCULOSIS. 
By Dr. It. Kooh, Privy Councillor. 
(Translated by Rev. F. Saure.) 
( Transactions of the Massachusetts Veterinary Medical Association.) 
(Continued from page 82.) 
5. —Boy of eight years. Caseous bronchial tubes, numerous miliary tuber¬ 
cles in the lungs, spleen, liver and kidneys. The little knots of the lungs were 
thoroughly provided with large nucleusless caseous centres, and on the circum¬ 
ferential parts of the same, single little groups of bacilli were to be found. Tu¬ 
berculous bacilli could also be proved in some giant cells on the border of the 
caseous centers. Bacilli-bearing giant cells were also to be found in the spleen. 
In this case I did not succeed in finding bacilli in the little knots of the liver and 
kidneys. On the contrary they were abundantly present in little nests in the 
bronchial glands. 
6. —A strongly built and vigorous man, thirty-four years old, had suffered 
from a cough for about three weeks before his entrance into the hospital. Quite 
high fever and broncho-pneumonia symptoms, cerebral phenomena soon ap¬ 
peared, and by means of the opthalmoscope, tuberculosis of the choroidea could 
be clearly shown. Death followed fourteen days after entrance to the hospital. 
Caseous confluent herds in the tips of both lungs, quite large, not very thickly 
sown miliary tubercles in the lungs, spleen and liver, bronchial glands caseous. 
In the little knots of the lungs tuberculous bacilli found singly in the periphery. 
