EDITORIAL. 
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bovines which are to cross the Spanish frontier. Thus rendered 
refractory to the disease, they conld not bring the germ back 
into their own barns. 
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Foot-and-Mouth Disease. —For several weeks there has 
been no question of greater importance in the Italian agricul¬ 
tural papers and among veterinarians than the treatment of this 
disease by the method invented by the present Secretary of Ag¬ 
riculture, Dr. Bacelli. 
This subject is not interesting to American veterinarians to 
the same degree as to Europeans. Foot-and-mouth disease does 
not exist in the United States. Dr. Salmon and his body of co¬ 
workers are watching—but yet, who knows? At any rate, a 
few remarks on the subject may not be without interest. 
Before becoming Secretary of Agriculture, Dr. Bacelli was a 
simple but well-appreciated practitioner. It is to him that credit 
is due for the use of heroic remedies injected into the blood to 
obtain more certain and quicker effects, especially in some in¬ 
fectious diseases. Malaria, among others, offered the opportu¬ 
nity for wonderful effects by this mode of treatment. Salts of 
quinine, injected into the pernicious form of that disease, reduced 
to zero the mortality among his patients. Many other applica¬ 
tions has Dr. Bacelli made known by the numerous and remark¬ 
able results he has obtained. When he reached the Agricultural 
Department he found that foot-and-mouth disease existed to an 
enormous extent in Italy, as, in fact, it has for some time back 
in all Europe. Remembering the good results he had obtained 
by injections of corrosive sublimate, he ‘decided to have them 
tried for foot-and-mouth disease. He called his official veteri¬ 
narian, fixed the dose according to the disease to from 2 to 4 
centigrams for calves, 4 to 6 for adult cows, 6 to 8 for large 
steers and bulls, and the experiments were started. First, they 
were made on 52 sick animals. Most of them required only 
two injections, a few had to get three, and all recovered in a 
very short time. Another trial was made in a district where 
the disease was most fatal; in 26 animals the result was the same. 
