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ture of the opposite femur, when improvement was already 
quite marked ; a similar case of the tendinous sheath of the 
anterior extensor of one hind leg, with perfect recovery; a case 
of ectasia of the great sesamoid sheath of the hind leg, with 
much deformity, which proved unsuccessful and had to be de¬ 
stroyed ; one of the sheath of the anterior extensor of the 
phalanges in a hind leg, with recovery ; one of the flexor of the 
phalanges of the hind leg, with complications on the opposite 
extremity, with great improvement; one case of similar trouble 
also on a hind leg, with recovery. 
If one takes into consideration the fact that all those cases 
were old, chronic, and with extensive alterations of structure, 
although they have not been all successful, they are, to say the 
least, very encouraging, and it seems very plausible to say that, 
applied upon cases of much milder form, and with more strict 
antisepsis, veterinarians may in some instances be justified in 
recurring to this new treatment. 
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Tuberculous Milk and Products. —Numerous experi¬ 
ments have been made upon the resistance of the tuberculous 
virus to the action of heat. The results that have been ob¬ 
tained have not always been alike, and marked differences have 
been observed, according to the mode of heating, its duration, 
the condition, quality and state of the virulent substance, and 
many other causes. Professor Galtier, of Lyons, has recently 
made special experiments on the milk and meat of tuberculous 
animals, and has come to the following conclusions : 
Milk carrying tuberculous germs is not sufficiently sterilized 
by being heated at 70°, 75°, 8o°, 85° ; these temperatures act¬ 
ing for six minutes produce only a partial destruction or a more 
or less marked reduction in the virulency ; introduced in that 
condition, even in massive doses, in the peritoneum of guinea- 
pigs, a more or less extensive tuberculosis may follow more or 
less rapidly ; repeated ingestion of milk may be followed by 
tuberculosis, even when it has been exposed to a temperature 
of 75 0 from 5 to 20 minutes ; therefore, to prevent all danger 
