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EDITORIAL. 
I must in connection with this subject mention only to-day 
that in France the subject has also stimulated the attention of 
scientists and of practical men. A commission has just been 
called npon by the Societe de Medecine Veterinaire Pratique 
(the same body which made experiments on the incubation of 
tuberculosis, made mention of by me some time ago, and whose 
report was translated and published in the Review by our 
friend, Dr. Winchester). The Commission has had a seating, a 
programme has been laid out, and I hope some day to send you 
a report of its findings. 
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In the meantime, practical records seem to find their way 
into scientific journals against the theory of Koch. Among 
them, I may mention the experiments made by the proctor pro¬ 
fessor of pathology at Owens College, Prof. Sheridan Delipine, 
who experimented upon four calves with a mixture of several 
tuberculous sputa, representing several types of human tuber, 
culous sputum. Two of . these animals died shortly after the 
inoculation and could not have been infected by it. The other 
two lived long enough to allow the definite results to be ob¬ 
tained, and both contracted tuberculosis by the injection of 
human tuberculous sputum. 
Another practical case is also found recorded in the Progres 
Veterinaire , and, although deprived of scientific evidences, is 
not without interest. A four-year-old steer having shown 
symptoms of pulmonary and abdominal tuberculosis, was 
tuberculined, and the diagnosis confirmed. This steer had been 
raised by the owner, who still had the mother, kept in a barn 
with two other cows. These three animals being- tuberculined 
answered sound. The great mother of the steer had also been 
tuberculined, and was sound. How did the steer then get the 
disease ? According to the author, from the son of the owner, 
who was tuberculous, and who, when taken with violent spasms 
of coughing, would go into the barn and expectorate. Where? 
On the bedding of the steer, then a young bull, which doubt¬ 
less ate the bedding and also the tuberculous sputum of 
