SOCIETY MEETINGS. 
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that cases of rabies could get to market. It is not probable but 
possible to get them. I remember a bunch of Texas steers, 
which showed wildness, and the symptoms were those of rabies. 
I advised quarantine but the local authorities were too slow, 
and the animals got off to the market. I was much pleased 
with the remarks made about actinomycosis and was sorry he 
did not make reference to the dissemination of the disease. It 
was noticed that fistula in the mouth was said to cause general 
infection. I have never seen a case of general infection, and I 
have seen cases where the jaw was affected,and there was opportu¬ 
nity for generalized actinomycosis. If dissemination can take 
place this way why don’t we see more of it? Cases of lung in¬ 
fection are brought about in the same way as in the human 
subject—by inhalation. Actinomycosis of the liver has been 
brought to my notice, but have never been able to discern the 
actinomyces in these cases. Tuberculosis in swine was quite in¬ 
teresting. Swine get it from eating the carcasses of tuber¬ 
culous animals. The farmer having a steer that does not thrive 
slaughters him and allows the hogs to eat the carcass, and very 
often these unthrifty cases are of a tuberculous nature. Dr. 
Lyford, of Minnesota, cites a case where the entire herd of hogs 
were affected from eating a diseased carcass. I was also inter¬ 
ested in that part where the nose is used in detecting urinifer- 
ous odors. We frequently find butchers who can tell such a 
carcass as it comes along by its smell, and inspectors could learn 
it in the same way. It was interesting, too, the reference to the 
peculiar coloring of the fat of. carcasses. When this subject was 
mooted to a Kansas farmer, he replied that the cattle were raised 
in Western Kansas, and it was due to eating sunflowers. 
Dr. Anderson : I do not thini^ of anything that I can add 
to what has been already said, but you will allow me to con¬ 
gratulate you upon having such a good and interesting meeting. 
Dr. Kanpp: Dr. Heck spoke of different foods producing 
different colors ; I would like to ask him if cotton-seed meal 
would produce a yellow color ? 
Dr. Heck: I don’t know ; a great many things will pro¬ 
duce a white fat. I came to these conclusions from a study of 
the ingesta at post-mortems. 
Dr. Wilson : Dr. Heck, do you think that white corn and 
alfalfa would produce white fat in an old Jersey cow 
Dr. Bennett: What is your ideas of these conditions. Dr. 
Heck ? 
Dr. Heck: When employed at Kansas City the packers 
