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after remaining on its feet all night, it fell over. At 8 a. m. 
next day, March 28, 1897, the rectal temperature was 39.2° C., 
at midday 41° C., afternoon of the same day at 6 p. m. it was 
42° C. Especially noticeable is the rapidly fatal course of the 
disease in both instances after the injection of the antitoxin, 
death occurring in each case within 24 hours. That the anti¬ 
toxin was injected very early in the disease, I do not in the 
least doubt. The history of both cases shows that the disease 
was just commencing. That I used enough antitoxin cannot 
be doubted. Perhaps it might have been better had I tried to 
obtain a slower working from the remedy by using subcuta¬ 
neous instead of intravenous injection or by giving fractional 
doses scattered over the first 24 to 36 hours instead of the whole 
dose at one time. The undoubted and remarkable rise of tem¬ 
perature after the injections, seems to me to be referable to the 
probable fact that the blood was markedly altered by the anti¬ 
toxin injection. I also harbor the conviction that only through 
the agency of the antitoxin, and that alone, could the further 
course of the disease be so influenced for the worse in so short a 
period of time.— {^Deiitch. Thierarzt. TVoc/i.) 
The Danger Attending the Use of Meat of Tuber¬ 
culous Animals {^Galtier ~\.—The author at many different 
times measured the risks accompanying the indiscriminate use 
of the meat of tuberculous animals. In an article published in 
1891, embracing his attempts at feeding poultry, cats, dogs and 
guinea-pigs with the meat of tuberculous cows, he did not suc¬ 
ceed in producing the disease in the animals thus experimented 
upon. In that same year he fed two calves and two pigs for 
many weeks upon tuberculous meat, or meat of condemned ani¬ 
mals, with negative results. During the years 1892 and 1893, 
he made a new food experiment upon two young pigs with 
similar results. Relying upon these negative results, which, by 
the way, coincide with the results achieved Nocard and Per- 
roncito, Galtier concluded that mankind has strong reason to 
doubt that the use of meat of tuberculous animals is attended with 
dangerous consequences ; that no reason existed for the public 
condemnation of the meat of tuberculous animals in all cases ; 
that one ought to rest content with the seizure of animals that 
are markedly emaciated as well as tuberculous or that have 
a decided degree of tuberculosis ; that it is sufficient in all 
other cases to seize merely the diseased organs. During 1894-5 
G. for five months fed two calves and two young pigs upon in¬ 
fected meat, failing again in his object, even though the juice 
