FOWL CHOLERA. 
335 
tem through the,nasal passages, and this venereal disease through 
the genital organs, the discharge from these respective parts 
should bear some points of resemblance if the diseases are anal 
ogous or the same. 
In the former case, “ this discharge may be at first trans¬ 
parent, and at a later period opaque and viscid, collecting around 
the margin of the nostril. * * * The character of the dis¬ 
charge is noteworthy. As has been said, it is glutinous and 
adheres to the skin and hair around the nostrils, forming soft, 
greasy-feeling crusts of a deep brown color, which adheres to the 
fingers when touched,’ 1 etc. In the venereal disease, “ there is a 
vaginal catarrh, the matter being viscid, glutinous—it adheres to 
the hair, soils the tail, perineum, inner surface of the thighs and 
the hocks, and in drying forms yellow or brownish crusts.” 
(Fleming, ibid , Yol. I and II, pp. 486, 316.) 
As striking a resemblance can be pointed out between the 
chancre of these diseases, but this would lead us too far; and our 
object so far has aimed to be only suggestive; to create enough 
interest, merely, in our subject to induce those in favorable 
positions to institute—to test the validity of our views—the 
necessary experiments. 
(To be continued .) 
FOWL CHOLERA AND THE GERM-THEORY OF DISEASE,* 
By D. E. Salmon, D.Y.M. 
No longer than a year ago, there were so many criticisms of 
the germ-theory continually appearing in our medical and scienti 
fic periodicals that the writer felt it a duty to place the evidence 
bearing on the question before the working microscopists of the 
country in such a connected form that they could scarcely fail to 
appreciate it. Accordingly the investigations of the best studied 
of the contagiotfs fevers, viz., charbon, were reviewed in two arti¬ 
cles published in the Journal of April and May, 1881, and the 
conclusion reached that there could no longer be a shadow of 
* Fro m The American Monthly Microscopical Journal. 
