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temperature, lasting for so long a time, and the demonstration of 
the sustaining and antipyretic action in the horse, of large doses 
of Quinia Sulph. Geo. C. Fayille, D. Y. M. 
NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
Cerebro-spinal, and spinal meningitis prevails to some extent 
in the vicinity of Goat Farm. 
A Goat Farm has recently been established in England for the 
purpose of supplying goats’ milk to London infants and Invalids. 
—Medical Record. 
Importance of Quarantine Regulations. —In South Africa 
the raising of cattle has almost entirely ceased, owing to the fact 
that several years ago a Holland bull was carried there afflicted 
with the lung disease, which, before it could be stopped, spread 
beyond control. This should prove a warning to American farm¬ 
ers. Congress should make a law forbidding the removal of cattle 
from any infected territory until they have undergone a period of 
quarantine .—A merican Cidtivator. 
Subsidy to Pasteur. —The French Minister of Agriculture 
has lately placed at the disposal of M. Pasteur a new sum of 
50,000 fr. ($10,000) in order to continue his valuable investiga¬ 
tions of the contagious diseases of animals. The government 
had already granted to the illustrious savant, for the same object, 
50,000 fr. in 1880 and 40,000 in 1881. The minister consulted 
a special committee, who, in view of the brilliant success obtained 
by Pasteur in his previous investigations, unanimously recom¬ 
mended a renewal of the grant .—Independent Practitioner. 
One More Bacillus. —At the instigation of E>rs. Loeffler and 
Scliiitz, of the Berlin Imperial Sanitary Bureau, the etiology of 
farcy has been carefully investigated. As was anticipated, the 
speciffc micro-organism of this disease was soon discovered. Nu¬ 
merous “ culture ” experiments have already been made, and horses 
have been successfully inoculated with the isolated [germs. One 
