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L. MCLEAN. 
results of the analyses of the best known products, as made 
by John R. Winslow (Professor Chemistry Woman’s Medi- 
ical College, Baltimore), and Dr. P. H. Crittenden (of the 
Chemico-Physiological Laboratory of Yale University), of 
pepsins purchased in the open market, as a guide to intelli¬ 
gent administration and employment. These analyses to¬ 
gether are as follows: 
1 . 
2 . 
3. 
4. 
5. 
6 . 
7. 
8 . 
Parke, Davis & Co’s., of Albumen 
Fairchild’s, of Albumen. 
Scheffer’s, of Albumen. 
Jensen’s, of Albumen. 
Ford’s, of Albumen. 
Merck’s, of Albumen. 
Boudault’s, of Albumen. 
Royal Chemical Co., of Albumen. 
1 grain dissolves 2,000 grains. 
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it 
1,200 
it 
a 
it 
960 
i i 
t i 
i i 
700 
a 
tt 
it 
640 
a 
it 
it 
320 
a 
it 
it 
280 
a 
it 
ti 
iso 
a 
These experiments, being purely chemical, represent pos¬ 
sibilities obtainable in the laboratory, but not of course uniform 
in the stomach ; digestive power, within the economy as be¬ 
fore noted, is considerably less (for reasons which cannot be 
entered upon in this connection), and further modified by 
circumstances—disease, character of the food, amount of fluids 
taken, etc. 
(To be continued .) 
RESOLUTIONS ON TUBERCULOSIS. 
Presented at the Twenty-sixth Meeting of the United States Veterinary Medical 
Association, by L. McLean, V.S., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Whereas , We, the members of the United States 
Veterinary Medical Association, being sensible of the preva¬ 
lence of bovine tuberculosis in the United States, particularly 
in the dairy stock of the eastern States, it being computed 
that at least from io to 15 per cent, are so affected in one 
form or another, and being satisfied of its infectious and con¬ 
tagious character and of its identity with tuberculosis, or con¬ 
sumption, in the human family, and that it can be conveyed 
to others both by inoculation and ingestion, believing that a 
large percentage of this disease in mankind can be traced to 
this source; 
