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also will realize the fact that our object is not personal, and that 
they will yet come to our assistance in despite of red tape restric¬ 
tions. 
Our report for the first semester of 1884 is published in this 
issue. Incomplete as it is, we hope it will prove interesting and 
useful. 
EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
TRANSMISSION OF HUMAN DIPHTHERIA TO FOWLS. 
By Dr. L. Roth. 
The doctor has made the transmission of human diphtheria to 
fowls the subject of some interesting observations. While treat¬ 
ing two children in a family affected with scarlet fever compli¬ 
cated with diphtheritic sore throat, he one day noticed in front of 
the bed of one of the children, and on the floor, a long band of 
epidermis, and was told that others had been expelled at previous 
times since the period of desquammation, which had been thrown 
away and swept upon the manure pit in the yard, where some 
thirty hens and six young roosters were kept. Six days after, 
ten of the hens were found suffering with diphtheria, with all its 
characteristic symptoms, and notwithstanding the isolation to 
which they were subjected, all the others became more or less 
affected. The mortality was about six per cent.— Wochus fur 
Thierh. 
A CASE OF SPASM OF THE STERNO-MAXILLARIS MUSCLE 
IN THE HORSE. 
By M. J. Buhler. 
This rare affection was observed by the author in an animal 
whose history was, that several days previous he had suddenly 
stopped eating and remained for several minutes with the mouth 
open ; showing the same symptom subsequently, also while at 
work. During these manifestations the superior parts of the 
sterno-maxillaris were spasmodically prominent, and projected 
above the parotid glands. These were of several minutes’ dura- 
