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J. H. TIMBERMAN. 
Notes. —Cases C and D were two unbroken ^colts in the 
same pasture. C developed and discharged two months be¬ 
fore anything wrong was noticed with D. These colts did 
not even have access to a shed. The cases I, J, K and L 
had access only to a first-class barn and shed, with wide, high 
doors. Nothing of interest could be discovered in the pas¬ 
ture except an artificial pond, which contained stagnant water, 
and out of which the horses must have drank, for there was 
no other water accessible. It seems plain to me that such 
suppurative processes may be indirectly transmissible and 
more than local in effect. 
A proposition which Chauveau, Orth, Rosenbach and 
Wyssokowitsch have proven correct regarding source, locat¬ 
ing factors and results of pus microbes in other conditions, 
and which Huber proved true for bacillus anthracis, and 
which Volkman, Schueller, Szuman and Verchere have 
proven for tuberculosis is certainly worthy of consideration 
as applied to the pathological condition under discussion. 
Finally, I wish to express my indebtedness to the printed 
works of Chauveau, Crookshank, Frankel, Vaughn, Steinberg, 
to the veterinarians of Ioua who aided me by accurate re¬ 
ports, and especially to Drs. Edwards, of Iowa City, Ham¬ 
mond, LeMars, Williams, of Manning, and Derwent, of Mar¬ 
shalltown, who< conducted the pepsin experiments. 
PUNCTURED WOUNDS OF THE FOOT, 
By Dk. J. H. Timbekman. 
(A Paper read before the Pennsylvania State Veterinary Medical Association.) 
The subject of punctured wounds of the foot is one which, 
in some of its aspects at least, has at times caused me no little 
anxious thought, and while I have no doubt it is receiving all 
the attention from each one of you gentlemen which its 
merits or demands require, I venture to hope that I may 
succeed in impregnating a few remarks on this subject with 
sufficient interest to atone somewhat for the use of a little of 
the valuable time of this meeting. 
