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Generally the lungs are affected at the same time, and this 
fact will greatly help the diagnosis. 
There may, perhaps, he a few tubercles in the meninges of 
the brain or cord for months ; but the disease is essentially an 
acute one, just as it is in human beings. 
That the tubercles are the true tubercles of bovine tuberculo¬ 
sis is shown by their developing, in some cases, directly on the 
dura mater of the brain in the form of little pedunculated tu¬ 
mors; so that the German name of “ pearl disease ’ applies to it 
still when situated in this region. They also s ow a tendency to 
calcify, peculiar to the pearl disease .—Medical Record. 
Diphtheria in Calves Communicated to Pigs. —Mr. Cole, 
a veterinary surgeon, of Hinckley, in Australia, has published 
the following illustration of the way in which diphtheria may be 
communicated from one of the domestic animals to another of a 
different species, thus indicating special sources from which the 
human disease may at times he contracted. 
A calf, about live months old was found to be dying with 
some symptoms of a throat disorder, and instructions were given 
to have the body buried, which, through some neglect, was not 
done immediately, so that a sow which managed to get access to 
the enclosure attacked the diseased meat and ate some of it. This 
circumstance came to be known when, a few days later, some of 
the pigs were taken down with, throat disease. Eventually the 
sow and her young pigs were also victims. These latter died 
within twenty-four hours, while the others, including a boar, re¬ 
covered entirely. Apropos of this outbreak among domestic 
animals, an account is given of an epidemic that occurred in the 
Oakleigh police station, traced to a diseased cow, whose milk had 
been used by the inmates of the station .—Australian Veterinary 
Journal. 
Resuscitation of Animals after Exposure to Extreme 
Cold. —F. F. Loptschinski says, ( Vratsch , No. 5-7) there is a re¬ 
markable disagreement between experiments and clinical observ¬ 
ers as to the manner of treating individuals that have been ex¬ 
posed to extreme cold, While nearly all of the latter hold that 
