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best results have not been eminently satisfactory either to my¬ 
self or to the owner of the patient. 
The duration of the trouble is from two or three hours to 
fifteen or twenty, though as a rule if the animal shows no sign 
of improvement after the first few hours have elapsed, I always 
consider the prognosis a grave one, especially if the owner has 
trusted the patient’s future destiny to my tender mercies. I 
usually give an unfavorable prognosis if the case is an aggra¬ 
vated one and no improvement has followed the usual remedies, 
or if, as is often the case, the animal gets steadily worse in spite 
of everything that has been done. 
< 1 have lleld one or two post-mortems, but failed to find any¬ 
thing more abnormal than a slight congestion of the intestines 
and also of the membranes of the brain ; though I must admit 
the autopsies were not as carefully performed as they might 
have been. 
In conclusion, I hope that the discussion this paper will ex- 
cite will throw light on this rather peculiar disease, and will be 
the means of disseminating some much-needed knowledge 
among my brother practitioners ancf myself. I know that all 
of the members present must have seen similar cases, and if they 
will give their experience with it, unfavorable and disastrous 
even though it be, as freely and unreservedly as I have, I trust 
that all of us will feel ourselves benefited by having had this 
subject brought before us for our consideration. 
TUBERCULOSIS.* 
By L. A. Merillat, V. S., Chicago, III., 
Chairman of the Committee on Tuberculosis of the Chicago Veterinary Society. 
The limited time assigned me does not admit of any lengthy 
discussion of the subject of tuberculosis of domestic animals. It 
will be simply my aim as Chairman of the Tuberculosis Com¬ 
mittee of the Chicago Veterinary Society to mention, in a few 
* An address delivered at the organization of the Illinois Society for the Prevention 
of Tuberculosis. 
