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United States shall be prohibited; that cattle, entered at these 
ports shall not be “ permitted ” until after the period of quaran¬ 
tine prescribed by law. 
That the quarantine stations shall be made “ bonded ware¬ 
houses,” and the veterinary superintendent Ci storekeeper.” 
That the Collector of the Port shall have control over quaran¬ 
tine stations as over any other bonded warehouse. 
That the “ storekeeper” shall attend to conveying cattle from 
ship to station; disinfect the ship; remove manure to a safe 
place; employ men to guard the cattle in quarantine; to clean 
and disinfect station ; to enforce the rules and regulations, and be 
responsible to the Collector for all matters pertaining to quaran¬ 
tine station and cattle. 
That the stations at present in New York and Boston he re¬ 
moved to a suitable locality, with water front, that cattle may he 
landed directly on quarantine ground. 
T1 lat a sufficient appropriation be made by Congress to carry 
out the quarantine regulations. 
DISEASES OF THE HEART IN DOMESTIC ANIMALS, 
ESPECIALLY THE HORSE. 
By Fr. Blazekovio. 
(Translated by J. G. Meyer, Sr., V.S.) 
I.—An atomic al-Physiological Remarks. 
Gentlemen. —The diseases of the heart are more frequent 
among the domestic animals than has heretofore been supposed, 
and many a diagnosis, which has. been attributed to other organs 
of the chest, proves upon close examination, to be an affection <>f 
the heart. Innumerable heart diseases are wholly overlooked, 
especially in practice, where one is not able to investigate, by 
means of a post mortem examination, the correctness of the diag¬ 
nosis. I remember to have read in one of the older veterinary 
pathological works, “ that it is of no consequence if the diagnosis 
of the diseases of the chest be not minutely located, which organ 
of the chest or which part suffers especially, as the treatment is 
