SOME FURTHER REMARKS ON “ SURRA.” 
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It is of the utmost importance that all infected animals 
should be placed in quarantine at a safe distance from the healthy 
animals, because of the danger of transmission by flies and other 
insects. Of course, no treatment will be of avail unless the feed 
is changed and water free from the organism be used for drink¬ 
ing or other purposes around the animals. 
Shelter at night to guard against the sudden changes of 
temperature and dew which occur in the tropics. The appetite 
is invariably good and the animal should have plenty of food of 
the best quality obtainable. Puncturing the swellings is not 
of benefit, at least until it is apparent that the patient has recov¬ 
ered from the actual disease. 
Anti-parasiticides might be of benefit applied directly to the 
skin to prevent as much as possible flies or other insects resting 
there. 
In the Interest of Science.— When one’s friend is a 
scientist and given to experiments a little caution may not be 
out of place before consenting to do him a favor. That, how¬ 
ever, did not occur to a certain well-known public man whose 
experience is related in an Australian paper. He went to the 
laboratory of an old schoolmate, a Melbourne professor of 
chemistry, to make a friendly call. The professor was studying 
a dark brown substance spread out on a sheet of paper. “ I say,” 
he cried, when greetings had been exchanged, “ would you 
kindly let me place a bit of this on your tongue ? My taste has 
become vitiated by trying all sorts of things.” “Certainly,” 
responded the accommodating friend, and he promptly opened 
his mouth. The professor took up some of the substance under 
analysis and put it on his friend’s tongue. The man worked it 
around in his mouth for fully a minute, tasting it much as he 
might have tasted a choice confection. “Note any effect?” 
asked the professor. “ No, none.” “ It doesn’t paralyze or prick 
your tongue?” “Not that I can detect.” “ I thought not. 
There are no alkaloids in it, then. How does it taste ? ” “ Bitter 
as gall.” “ Hem-in-m ! All right.” By this time the visitor’s 
curiosity was aroused. “ But what is it, anyhow ? ” he inquired. 
“I don’t know. That’s what I’m trying to find out. Some one 
has been poisoning horses with it.”—( Youth's Companion .) 
