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sis can usually be given, it is a most interesting condition to 
the practitioner, and its discussion in the periodicals can but be 
of the greatest benefit. Being in the position to be of assist¬ 
ance to my fellow-practitioners in this respect, I cheerfully offer 
the pages of the Review lor such a purpose. 
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GERMAN REVIEW. 
By W. V. Bieser, D.V.S., New York City. 
The Probabee Identity of the Bacteria of Apthous 
Stomatitis of Human Beings and of Foot-and-Mouth 
Disease of Cattle. —Bussenius and Siegel investigated the 
<^uestion if the cause of apthous sore throat of human beings 
and of foot-and-mouth disease of cattle were identical; they 
found a bacillus morphologically and biologically identical with 
the bacilhis coh co^nmtuiis^ which, taken from the apthse of 
human beings and inoculated in cattle caused foot-and-mouth 
disease, and furthermore this identical bacillus was found in the 
blood of the heart. Furthermore, in animals suffering from the 
disease, this bacillus inoculated in healthy animals caused the 
disease. Hence the authors believe the human and bovine dis¬ 
ease to be identical.— (Berl. Thierdrzt. Woch) (My opinion 
[Bieser’s] is as follows: If inoculations with coccidi according 
to P. and F., if inoculations with Sarcovici’s bacillus, if inocula¬ 
tions with the small ovoid bacillus above mentioned to the satis¬ 
faction of each of its discoverers can cause the disease exper¬ 
imentally, only one conclusion can be drawn, viz., each of these 
organisms can infect the animal, each may be able to convey 
the poison of the disease, making it a polymicrobic not a mono- 
niicrobic disease.) 
Urticaria in Swine. —In R.’s locality urticaria occurs very 
frequently with occasional fatalities. The sickened swine die 
of symptoms of marked constipation, the illness lasting 5 to lo 
days, when death often ensues. The localities thus visited are 
hilly, dry, and with very little water in summer. According to 
R. the urticaria begins in the form of erythematous patches the 
size of a quarter, circumscribed and elevated above the surface ; 
then finally ecchymotic spots show themselves varying in color 
according to the length of time they remain present. In favor¬ 
able cases resolution occnrs, the patches become pale, and epi- 
