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“must be recognized as possessing the same guarantees as tho> 
u granted by the French schools 5 3d Reciprocity of recognitic 
“ must exist, either with the Government from which the diplon 
“ is granted, or with the nationality of the applicant.” 
This last clause of Article 3 warns the foreign schools that tl 
education they furnish to their graduates must be good and tho 
ough ; and it may also be recognized as betraying the influent 
of the impression heretofore made by certain spurious diploic 
mills, especially those of America; a sad reminiscence of some< 
the work done by the McClure institutions and their like, son 
years ago. 
Polyuria as a Means of Diagnosis of Tuberculosis 
the Horse. —Though for a long time the name of tubercle In 
been applied to certain lesions of the respiratory or digestive a 
paratus of solipeds, it is but recently that it has been establish! 
that true tuberculosis may exist in the horse also. The bacilli 
of Koch having been discovered by Trasbot and Nocard durir 
their post mortem investigations, the demonstration became cor 
plete of the possibility of natural tuberculosis in animals of th 
species. The discovery of this bacillus in these lesions furnish: 
Professor Nocard with an opportunity to change his mind in rt 
pect to the nature of an affection which he had described son 
years previously, and which he attributed to disease of tl 
lymphatic structures, which he had called pulmonary lymphadenr 
in his pamphlet on leucocythemia. Resuming the study of tl 
disease, though no longer under the name he had before given 
it, but under its true and the more proper denomination of tub( 
culosis, he noticed that six out of eight of the animals which 
had under observation were affected with a certain peculiar sym 
tom which he thinks is of great importance when one consick 
that very often great difficulty is met in discovering the leaf 
which gives rise, during life, to the serious manifestations th 
are presented by the patient. “ This symptom is an abunda 
polyuria, which lasts for several weeks, and which no don 
plays an important part in the rapid loss of condition of t 
patient. The quantity of urine passed is sometimes doub 
treble, or even quadruple the normal amount. The proportion 
