REVIEW. 
189 
HEREDITY AND CONTAGION IN THE PROPAGATION OF TUBER¬ 
CULOSIS, AND THE PREVENTION OF INJURIOUS EFFECTS 
FROM CONSUMPTION OF THE FLESH AND MILK OF TUBER¬ 
CULOUS ANIMALS. 
By A. Lydtin, Carlsruhe, Veterinary Adviser to the Baden Government; G. 
Fleming, LL.D., F.R.C.V.S., Principal Veterinary Surgeon to the British 
Army, and M. Van Heesten, Veterinary Surgeon and Chief Inspector of 
the Brussels Abattoir. 
The issue of this report will prove to the veterinary profession 
one of the most important of those recently published in relation 
to the disease named. It is a translation of the report presented 
to the Fourth International Veterinary Congress, held in Septem¬ 
ber last at Brussels, and brings the entire history, with all the 
newly-discovered facts relating to tuberculosis, down to our own 
day. It is a valuable eompend of the scientific knowledge of the 
disease, and shows on the part of the authors a great amount of 
difficult researches, of close observation and of personal experi¬ 
ments, all of which are made to contribute to the solution of the 
important problem of the prevention of the effects resulting from 
the conversion into food of the flesh and milk of tuberculous 
animals. As the question was not discussed at the last Congress, 
but was postponed to the next, the precautions which are recom¬ 
mended could not be definitely agreed upon. But it is neverthe¬ 
less equally full of interest to the sanitary veterinarians now en¬ 
gaged in the duties of meat inspection. 
The book is neatly printed, and makes a handy octavo of 175 
pages. The report proper is supplemented by a short discussion 
of the subject, which occurred on the last day of the International 
Congress. 
HORSES—THEIR FEED AND THEIR FEET. 
By C. E. Page, M.D. 
This volume claims to point out the true source of Malaria, 
Disease Waves, Influenza, Glanders, Pinkeye, etc. This 
title is certainly sufficiently suggestive and taking to tempt every 
one interested in the diseases referred to to buy and read the 
book; the more so, when he has the promise added of ins true- 
