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on its surface a deposit like the albumen of an egg. The gelatine 
is absorbed by degrees as this culture progresses. 
3. A microceous having analogies with the above, distin 
guished from it by the golden yellow tint of the masses that it 
forms. 
4. A microceous which forms yellow-orange colored masses 
on the surface of the gelatine of cultivation, with a waxy appear¬ 
ance. Like those of the first two kinds, this microccocus does not 
liquify the gelatine. Placed upon slices of potato, it develops 
better. When the cultures are colored with the blue of methy¬ 
lene, they are found composed almost e clusively of raicroccoci of 
very small dimensions, some isolated, others coupled up diplococci 
shape, or in greater number, so as to resemble bacteria. 
Inoculations made upon a heifer with the cultures of the first 
three varieties of microbes gave only negative results. Inocula¬ 
tions made with cultures of the fourth kind to the thoracic re¬ 
gion, to the root of the tail, have given rise to local troubles, that 
is, the formation of two tumors, one the size of a goose egg, the 
other (that‘of the tail) the size of a pigeon’b egg. Both tumors 
were sub-cutaneous and were rapidly resorbed. 
Then again, in cultivating the liquid exhaust of the healthy 
pulnlonary structure, Mr. Lustig has obtained the pure develop¬ 
ment of the first three varieties, but never the microbe, orange- 
yellow color, of the fourth. Thes Mr. L. believes to represent 
the germ of contagious pleuro pneumonia. 
In another article, the author states that by more recent ob¬ 
servations the fresh cultures of this yellow-orange microbe are in 
great part made up of bacilli, which present points of a darker 
coloration (formations of spores). They are short, thick and mov¬ 
ing rapidly.— Gazette Medicate. 
PRESCRIPTIONS FOR GENERAL TUBERCULOSIS AND TABES MES- 
ENTERICA IN CATTLE. 
By J. Brodie Greswell, M.R.C.Y.S. 
Having found the following formulae very useful in the treat¬ 
ment of general tuberculosis and of tabes mesenterica in beasts, I 
venture to submit them to the notice of the readers of the Veteri- 
