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DR. BILLINGS. 
One wonders what Sehutz will have to say to such generaliza¬ 
tion as the above. It certainly shows the caution which medical 
men should exercise—but which Hueppe certainly has not—when 
they come to consider animal diseases. There is no relation 
whatever between these two complications in their anatomical 
lesions, except that pneumonia exists in both, nor in their clin¬ 
ical course.—B. 
“ While swine seem to possess a high degree of susceptibility 
to the reception of the virus of this disease by the lungs and 
cutaneous wounds, the question of intestinal infection needs fur¬ 
ther consideration. The hsemorrhogic enteritis, which is an al¬ 
most constant occurrence, and the singular resemblance of the 
cutaneous complications in this disease to those of anthrax, suffi¬ 
ciently demonstrate why it should have been mistaken for that 
disease in the past and the urgent necessity of its requiring con¬ 
sideration from the hygienic point of view. 
“ Bravell and others have shown that some breeds of swine 
are not susceptible to the action of the purest cultivations of an¬ 
thrax. These experiments do not, however, warrant the conclu¬ 
sion that all swine are not susceptible to anthrax. Breeds of 
swine that possess this peculiar non-receptivity towards anthrax, 
have no immunity to the ‘ wildseuehe.’ The swine of the Ba¬ 
varian mountains are especially susceptible to this disease, which 
has undoubtedly led to many mistaken assertions as to the fre¬ 
quency of anthrax in these animals.” 
“ The deportment of sheep to this pest is quite the contrary, 
as they have very little susceptibility to the ‘ wildseuche.’ The 
susceptibility of the different breeds of sheep remains, however, a 
matter for future investigation. 
“ Experience has shown that rabbits are particularly useful 
for the experimental study of this disease. As already men¬ 
tioned, Bollinger caused these animals to die in 6 to 8 hours; my 
investigations have resulted in causing death in from 12 hours, as 
the minimum, to 36 as the extreme duration ; as a rule, the time 
elapsed is from 15 to 20 hours. When inoculated in the ear, the 
locus inoculationis soon becomes hot, swollen and oedematous. 
Especial typical symptoms are wanting, the phenomena being 
