American Veterinary Review. 
FEBRUARY, 1901. 
All communications for publication or in reference thereto should be addressed to Prof. 
Roscoe R. Bell, Seventh Ave. & Union St., Borough of Brooklyn, New York City. 
EDITORIAL. 
EUROPEAN CHRONICLES. 
It is some time since I had the pleasure to send our readers 
some European news, but, after all, the fault is not so much 
mine, as that of bad luck, which has permitted one of my manu¬ 
scripts to be lost, or it may have been devoured by whales 
or other inhabitants of the deep in crossing the Atlantic. Now 
that my friends in New York have told me of the danger I will 
try to redeem myself with a promise of more exactitude in the 
future. 
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Tuberculosis—Age of Lesions. —That was the subject 
of my lost chronicle, and it was too interesting and important 
for me not to renew it concisely. 
Our readers will remember that last July I spoke to them of 
a commission which had been appointed to carry out a series of 
experiments with the object of determining the incubative 
stage of tuberculosis and the age of the lesions that were found 
at post-mortems. The programme was well laid, and the ani¬ 
mals divided into lots, to be infected in various manners, some 
by being fed with tuberculous matter, others to be contaminated 
by inhalation of tuberculous powders, some by injection of 
emulsion of tuberculous culture in the teats, one was to receive 
it in the trachea and one into the jugulars. 
The entire series of experiments were carried out according 
to the programme, the temperature carefully registered, and 
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