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the blood is drained from the vessels, as in slaughtering, the 
dangerous principle leaves the body, and post-mortem does 
not produce appreciable changes in the meat. 
Animals having suffered the affection only a short while 
are to be more favorably considered than those slain possi¬ 
bly only a short time before a natural death. 
It is also known that the meat of septicasmic patients be¬ 
comes rapidly foul after death, and the poisonous product, 
traces of which undoubtedly remain in the carcass, greatly 
increases. The danger enhances with the length of time be¬ 
tween slaughter and consumption. 
In meat poisoning, these changes after death are an im¬ 
portant factor, whose virulent character is not always annihi¬ 
lated by boiling. 
The foregoing premises lead to a simple and inevitable 
conclusion, which naturally excludes the use of such meat in 
the manufacture of sausage. 
It may further be observed that the time of year and con¬ 
dition of the weather materially influence the process of de¬ 
composition .—Schweizer A rchiv . 
FROM ENGLISH JOURNALS. 
TUBERCULOSIS IN THE DOG. 
By Stewart Stockman, M.R C.Y.S. 
The history of this case is thus reported: The dog was 
fourteen years old, and had been kicked by a horse a short 
time previous to his being brought in for treatment, and after 
the animal’s death the following interesting and amusing his¬ 
tory was obtained : About eighteen months ago the animal 
was engaged in an affaire de coeur , which necessitated his stay¬ 
ing out late at night. It had even been noticed on more oc¬ 
casions than one that his bed had not been occupied over 
night. This unseemly conduct in one old enough to know 
better, did not go unpunished. His constitution was under¬ 
mined, as the result of his dissolute course of life, and was 
unable to resist the effects of the wintry blasts which were 
