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show plainly against their moist surroundings. They can best be compared with 
little dry scales which are slightly attached to the serum surface. According as 
the inoculating substance was rubbed upon a greater or less surface, and accord¬ 
ing to the abundance of bacilli in the same, the scales develop in smaller or 
greater numbers and extent on the serum surface. 
The single scales only reach a limited spread, so that when only a few are 
present they remain separated. When numerous and thickly crowded together, 
on the contrary, they finally unite and form a thin, grayish white lustreless coat¬ 
ing on the serum. 
(To be continued .) 
ARE QUADRUPEDS SUBJECT TO H/EM0RRH0IDAL DISEASES ? 
By De. J. Faust. 
This question is in brief answered by William Bodenhamer, 
A.M.M.H., in the New York Medical Journal , January 12, 
1889, and to find proof for his theory, he backs his opinion by 
veterinary literature, namely: Mr. Hill, a veterinary surgeon of 
London ; Mr. Armatage, also a veterinary surgeon of London; 
Mr. Gamgee; also a Dr. Nathaniel Field, of Jeffersonville, Ind.; 
Prof. Gohier, of Lyons, France, and Prof. Chassier. Strange to 
say, the gentleman stopped short there, not mentioning a single 
German author, which in my judgment should have a place in 
veterinary literature and science. In Friedberger and Froehner’s 
Handbucli der Speciellen Patalogie und Therapie, published in 
1886, the gentleman will find proof enough that haemorrhoids do 
exist in quadrupeds. He will find clearly demonstrated there the 
difference of haemorrhages from haemorrhoids or other haemor¬ 
rhages which are not haemorrhoids, namely, Milzbrand Apoplec- 
tisclie form, Petecliialfieber der Pferde, de Kabafieber beim Bind, 
etc. This corresponds correctly with his own idea that bleeding 
by the rectum sometimes proceeds from other sources than hae¬ 
morrhoids. 
A few words of description of haemorrhoids: Diese diffusen 
oder knoten artigen Varikosen Erweiterungen der Haemorrhoi- 
delvanen welche theils im Submucossen sogananuta innere Hae- 
morrhoiden, theils im subcutanen gawaloe ausserhalt des after so¬ 
gananuta aeussere Haemorrhoiden sitzen, also a symptomatology 
and lastly the therapeutics. 
The following literature will bear evidence that quadrupeds 
do have haemorrhoids. 
