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corded the facts presented to their notice foi* the benefit of their 
fellow-workers. It has fallen to my lot to identify certain forms 
of the disease under consideration, and define to the best of my 
ability the causes giving rise to them. 
Had my conclusions been illogical or erroneous, other laborers 
in the same field would have been ready to point out my mis¬ 
takes ; but their general correctness having been established, it 
now remains for those whose interests are associated with the 
pastoral, agricultural, and transport industries of this country, to 
determine whether, and to what extent, they will adopt the means 
of prevention which are calculated to protect their stock and 
prove of great public benefit. In view of the importance of this 
subject, no time should be lost in practically applying what has 
proved so successful in other countries, and by that means show¬ 
ing an appreciation of the science and progress of the age in 
which we live. 
AN INQUIRY 
INTO THE ETIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY OF THE VENEREAL DIS¬ 
EASES OF MAN AND OF THE LOWER ANIMALS. 
By Ciiakles F. Ring, M.D. 
(Continued from page 226.) 
Professor Coleman, who was an authority of his time, and 
who argued the non-contagiousness of glanders, writes : “ The 
malady (glanders) which broke out among the men engaged in 
the Waleheren expedition, attacked almost all of them; lienee it 
was considered to be a contagious disease. Afterwards, however, 
it proved not to be, nor was this assumption required to explain 
its endemic character, for they all (if the expression may be 
allowed) ate it, they all drank it, and they all breathed it.’ 3 
(Quoted by Percival, ibid , vol. 35.) 
This rapid imparting of the disease from one individual to 
another has even taken place in private families. “ For exam¬ 
ple, where one has eaten from the same dish with a diseased in* 
dividual, or where an entire family, consisting of nianj.wife $nd 
