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EDITORIAL. 
EUROPEAN CHRONICLES. 
Tuberculosis is more than ever the subject of writings, of 
experiments, and of records of cases of contagion since the ques¬ 
tion has received a new impulse at the Congress of London, and 
scientific papers are more or less filled with articles on the 
subject, whether on human, bovine, or even aviary tubercu¬ 
losis. 
In reference to this last, and to the relation that it has to 
the disease of many mammalia, I find in the Giornale della R. 
S. et Academ. Veterin ., of Turin, a contribution of Dr. Garino, 
with the object of adding material to prove the relation of both 
diseases. 
The question is important, and the advocates of both opin¬ 
ions—that the disease is essentially different, or not—belong to 
the highly scientific world. Devillers, Lenglen, Johne, Nocard, 
Mollereau, and others have affirmed the possibility of the trans¬ 
mission of the disease of man to fowls, and consequently have 
admitted the etiological identity of the two forms of tuberculo¬ 
sis. On the other side, Rivolta, Maffucci, Strauss, Gameleia, 
etc., have advanced a different opinion and consider the two 
affections as essentially different. 
The guinea-pig takes the human disease easily, but is con¬ 
siderably resistant to that of fowls, and that almost natural im¬ 
munity is considered as a differential character of importance by 
those who deny the identity of the disease ; and Dr. Garino in¬ 
forms us that to determine the value that can be attached to 
some differential characters between the various forms of tuber¬ 
culosis he has made several experiments. 
To 35 guinea-pigs he has injected cultures of aviary tubercu¬ 
losis ; in io under the skin, and 25 in the peritoneal cavity. 
The first did not develop a generalization of the disease ; an ab¬ 
scess with pus, containing bacilli at the point of inoculation, a 
small ulcer, healing more or less rapidly, and a noticeable loss 
of weight until the ulcer has begun to cicatrize—that was alb 
In the others there was progressive loss of flesh until death, and 
tuberculosis of the omentum and mesentery was found, the tu- 
