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goitre of the same animal. Eczema in the dog, horse, and 
tuberculosis in the feline, canine, equine and avian species is 
treated at length in the work. 
In the chapter on tuberculosis of the cat the author gives an 
interesting account of the various manners in which that ani¬ 
mal contracts the disease. The author states that contrary to 
the general opinion, three-fourths of the cases of tuberculosis 
among cats are due to infection received from persons suffering 
from tuberculosis. This statement coincides with my own ob¬ 
servations extending over a period of several years, during 
which time I have observed that in families in which tubercu¬ 
losis is prevalent, you will almost invariably find tuberculosis 
to prevail among the feline members of such a family. There 
has been heretofore a generally accepted opinion among veteri¬ 
narians that tuberculosis is a rare disease among horses. Prof. 
Cadiot gives an interesting account of this disease as it exists 
in the horse. He says : u Bearing in mind the varying forms 
which tuberculosis may assume in the horse, it is rare that some 
of the complex assemblage of symptoms fails to suggest the 
correct diagnosis. The final conclusion is assisted by ausculta¬ 
tion, percussion, rectal exploration, and palpation of accessible 
lymphatic glands, and is confirmed by bacteriological examina¬ 
tion, injection of tuberculin, or inoculation.” Prof. Cadiot 
states that the injection of 30 centigrammes of tuberculin is 
followed in a tuberculous horse by a reaction, which usually at¬ 
tains its maximum about the fifteenth hour, the temperature 
rising about 2 or 3 degrees C. M. Cadiot also states that 
the proportion of pulmonary tuberculosis in the horse is about 
70 per cent.; tuberculosis of the mesenteric and sublumbar 
glands and the spleen, about 40 per cent. ; of the liver, pleura, 
and peritoneum, 20 per cent. ; of the intestines, 15 per cent. He 
also states that tuberculosis of the kidneys is rare in horses. 
Part V of the work contains an interesting account of the 
treatment of tuberculosis in the guinea-pig, with the parotid 
saliva of horses collected aseptically. Although these experi¬ 
mental injections of parotid saliva failed to produce any bene¬ 
ficial therapeutic effects, it nevertheless serves to show with 
what tireless energy scientific investigators are seeking an anti¬ 
dote that will stay the ravages of the great white plague, tuber¬ 
culosis. The work also contains an account of the serum 
treatment of glanders carried out by the author and other 
European investigators—also an account of his experiments 
with vanadine used subcutaneously as a therapeutic agent in 
