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Sloane, his stable was large, airy, well lighted, ventilated, had a 
water-tight floor, readily lent itself to cleansing and disinfec¬ 
tion and was altogether from a sanitary standpoint well ar¬ 
ranged. 
The stable of Dr. Colt, on the other hand, was the very 
reverse of this. It was small, had insnfiicient cubic space, but 
little ventilation, no proper drainage, had pervious urine-soaked 
floors, was finished in rough timber, and from a sanitary point 
of view was badly arranged. Taken on the whole, it is not too 
much to say that it was considerably worse than the average 
Massachusetts cow stable. And, yet, in spite of all this and the 
fact that it was a badly infected stable, the evidence is that the 
means of disinfection were adequate and that the infection of 
tuberculosis was completely eradicated. 
Reviewing the two cases as a whole, the immense prepon¬ 
derance of evidence is in favor of these conclusions. 
That, by the judicious use of tuberculin, tuberculosis can be 
eradicated from a herd of cows. 
That tuberculosis is not an hereditary disease. 
That so far as calves are concerned the danger to them from 
the use of milk from tuberculous cows must necessarily be very 
slight. 
And that, given an infected building, it is possible, at com¬ 
paratively little cost, to make it entirely free from infection and 
a safe place in which to keep stock so far as the disease tuber¬ 
culosis is concerned. 
PARTURIENT APOPLEXY. 
By J. S IvAmkin, D. V. S., Yonkers, N. Y. 
A Paper read before the Veterinary Medical Association of New York County, May 
4, 1898. 
Win. A. Mowry said that “ there’s no lamp by which our 
feet may be guided but the lamp of experience ” ; but, although 
I have had some little experience with the disease in question, 
I do not feel at all competent to attempt to be a “ guide unta 
