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EXTRACTS FROM EXCHANGES. 
Wochenschr. contributes an extensive article, in which is de¬ 
scribed minutely the measures taken in the different States of 
our Union for the prevention and eradication of this malady 
among cattle. After discussing the importance of these meas¬ 
ures, the article ends as follows: u All these facts are sufficient 
to prove that in the United States the danger of spreading of 
tuberculosis in cattle, and which also includes the health of 
human beings, are appreciated by the State and city officials, 
and by them an energetic fight was started to overcome this 
disease. It is evident that the United States in regard to this 
condition are a great deal further advanced than we. The 
measures of the States and these efforts of the larger cities 
should be appreciated in procuring their inhabitants milk free 
from the germs of tuberculosis. Would it be possible to intro¬ 
duce these regulations in our cities ?” This ought to make us 
feel proud of ourselves, as it is another evidence that the ad¬ 
vancement in veterinary medicine in this country and the edu¬ 
cation given in our schools is acknowledged and appreciated 
by our European colleagues. And, first of all, the credit for all 
this is to be given to the Bureau of Animal Industry, which 
in the last few years has done such marvelous work in regard 
to meat inspection and investigations of infectious diseases. 
FRENCH REVIEW. 
The Post-mortem Diagnosis of Rabies in the Dog 
\_By Prof. Nocarcf .—This subject is of capital importance to 
the veterinarian, for upon its correctness depends the lives of 
those who have been bitten. When it is a dog dead after the 
natural march of the disease, the post-mortem ordinarily reveals 
signs which permit a conclusion of the existence of the disease; 
yet, even in this case, it often happens that the necroscopical signs 
are absent, and consequently if the veterinarian has not seen 
the dog while alive, and has not been able to follow the pro¬ 
gress of the disease, it is impossible for him to tell with cer¬ 
tainty if the dog was rabid or not. These negative results of 
post-mortem, exceptional when looked for in animals that have 
died from the disease, are far less frequent when searched in 
animals killed during the development of the disease. For in¬ 
stance, it is common not to find any of the ordinary signs of 
rabies at the post-mortem of dogs killed in public roads because 
they have bitten some one, animals or persons ; and this fact is 
so much more serious that most often these dogs are entirely 
