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ees two strange dogs meet with stiffened tails, touch noses, then 
all to quarreling; and I doubt not one says to the other in dog 
mguage : “You’re a scurvy fellow“what are you doing here, 
ny way ?” “ You’re not clean “ yon smell bad perhaps ap- 
lying more offensive epithets, any one of which would precipitate 
conflict among the higher orders of life. 
(To be continued .) 
HOG CHOLERA, OR SWINE PLAGUE, 
By Thomas Bowhill, M.R.C.V.S. 
(Continued from page 419.) 
I have already alluded to the mild course the disease has taken 
a Nebraska, which will account for the number of pigs inoculated 
y Dr. Billings, which did not die, or were killed before death. 
Ip to the present time the whole number inoculated has been 
wenty ; number of deaths, eight; and of three rabbits, all died 
dtliin four days; also inoculated three dogs, without any effect 
xcept the formation of an abscess at the locus of inoculation. 
On account of Prof. Schutz having described the German dis¬ 
use as an infectious pneumonia, and having found a bacteria so 
early corresponding to ours, Dr. Billings decided to introduce 
le artificial virus directly into the large intestine, thereby lessen- 
ig the chances of the bacteria being conveyed at once to the 
mgs, either by the lymphatics or blood vessels, to the least de- 
ree possible. But with all these precautions he had more or less 
mg complications in every case, though the intestines also con¬ 
fined lesions. It might be interesting to you for me to report 
n autopsy on an animal which was subjected to one of those ex- 
erimental inoculations. The subject, a hog four months old, ab- 
flutely healthy and in fine condition, inoculated with material 
lfich Dr. Billings obtained from some sick hogs at Bising, Neb., 
eptember 20, 1886, and which had been carried rapidly through 
iree culture generations—the bacteria being present and in an 
osolutely pure condition. This hog was inoculated on Septem- 
er 28th. The following changes took place: October 1st, off its 
