466 SYNOPSIS OF continental veterinary journals. 
or cholera of fowls commenced on the 15th October, 1877, 
and I presented my me moire to the Uoyal Academy of 
Agriculture of Turin, on 2nd February, 1878. Since, then, 
my Toulouse colleague discovered the parasite in question 
on the 16th October, 1878, we must conclude that he 
observed it one year after I did so.” 
M. Toussciint has not been idle lately. A paper of his, 
Contribution to the Study of the Transmission of Tuberculosis 
was presented by M. Bouley to the Academy of Sciences, and 
appears in the minutes for 29th March, 1880. The conclusions 
are thus summarised by the author :—“ These experiments 
show that the lesions in the pig are those of acute tuber¬ 
culosis and that they involve death in a very short space of 
time—a few weeks. Tuberculosis of the pig is analogous to 
“ Galloping Consumption ” of the human subject (bovines, 
on the contrary, are most frequently affected with chronic 
tuberculosis). From this it results that young pigs from 
tuberculous parents bear up only for a short time against 
the disorder and die young, and that in adults which become 
tuberculous the rapid progress of the disease prevents repro¬ 
duction. With regard to contagion the experiments also 
confirm the view that tuberculosis is transmissible with the 
greatest facility. (1) By ingestion of tuberculous material. 
(2) By hereditary transmission or milk supply. (8) By in¬ 
oculation with tuberculous matter or blood. (4) By simple 
cohabitation.— Revue Veterinaire , June, 1880. 
In the Wochenschrift f. Thierheilhnde und Thiersucht , I, 
1880, and the Journal de Medecine Veterinaire et de Zoo- 
techine de Lyon, May, 1880, are recorded observations by 
Bollinger , of Munich, on tuberculosis resulting from in¬ 
gestion of the uncooked milk of tuberculous cows. In this 
are mentioned the experiments made by this observer some 
time ago and noted by us. He also says :—“ If bovine 
and human tuberculosis are not identical, at least they 
have many points of similarity. The introduction by in¬ 
oculation of bovine tubercle into other animals almost 
always leads to phenomena analogous to those of bovine 
tuberculosis. Of a lot of six pigs, two were fed on cooked 
milk, two were kept as check animals, and two fed 
on raw milk. The two of the first set, on autopsy, were 
found to be highly tuberculous. In the subjects of the third 
category intestinal inflammation was met with; the glands 
of the neck and of the intestine were caseous. The check 
animals were healthy. Two experiments made on monkeys, 
as well as two on a goat and a guinea-pig, failed. Thus 
Bollinger considers that the milk of tuberculous cows given 
