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NEWS AND SUNDRTES. 
puting the duration of quarantine to agree with that of Canada. 
This will be welcome news to the cattle importers of the United 
States, as it materially shortens the time of quarantine after de¬ 
barkation, thus reducing the expense of importation. While a 
quarantine of ninety days lias been enforced by both our own and 
the Dominion Government, the latter computes the time from the 
date the cattle were shipped from the foreign port, thus giving 
the shipper the benefit of the time en route ; whereas our own 
Government has heretofore enforced the full ninety days after 
landing at a United States port. Hereafter the time will begin 
to run from the day of embarkation on the other side.— The 
Breeders' Gazette. 
The Discovery of the Bacilli of Tubercle.— It is difficult 
to estimate the value of Koch’s demonstration of the truly para¬ 
sitic nature of tuberculosis. This must be admitted a great ad¬ 
vance in the field of pathological research, and will likely lead to 
the easy recognition of the necessary prophyllaxis, if not the cer¬ 
tain means of cure. About fifteen years ago, Salisbury, of Ohio, 
created quite a sensation by his publications in the Philadelphia 
Medical and Surgical Reporter , of the crytoganic origin of sev¬ 
eral forms of disease. In 1879, he and Dr. Ephriam Cutter, of 
Boston, published an account of some ingeniously contrived ex¬ 
periments to prove the parasitic origin of pulmonary consumption, 
but it has remained for Koch to demonstrate the precise nature 
of the bacillum. Dr. Ered. Eklund, of Stockholm, published a 
year or two ago an interesting account of some cases of contagious 
phthisis pulmonalis, and it seems that he has been fully confirmed 
by the demonstrations of Koch, who has only to point out the in¬ 
fallible destroyer of the bacillum in order to eclipse Jenner’s 
glorious achievement.— The Medical Herald. 
Scarlet Fever and Butchers’ Meat.— There seems to be 
some evidence that scarlet fever may be communicated through 
butchers 1 meat. Dr. Bobertson, of Penrith, England, reports the 
following case: In a butcher’s family there was an exceedingly 
mild case of scarlet fever, so mild that no medical man was called 
in, the disease, in fact, not being recognized ; but the free des- 
