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EDITORIAL. 
This new outbreak, will no doubt determine the Legislature to 
make the needed appropriation for the work of stamping out the 
disease. Indeed, it is rumored that $50,000 is the sum to be 
granted to carry on the work. 
Dr. Hopkins reports New York City as being free from the 
disease; at least he has found no case of pleuro-pneumonia in his 
last investigations. 
MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION OF THE SPECIMENS OF DR. R. WOOD. 
We have received from Dr. Peabody, Pathologist to the New 
York Hospital, the result of his examination with the microscope 
of the specimens of testicle presented by Dr. R. Wood at the 
last meeting of the United States Veterinary Medical Associa¬ 
tion. Unsatisfactory to him as it is, the Doctor says in his let¬ 
ter : “ The two specimens received from you, one piece of testicle, 
the other a new growth, were both of them so very soft when I 
got them, that absolute alcohol will not harden them. I have 
cut them and mounted them. The testicle shows merely a ma¬ 
cerated stroma of testicle, whose fibres are swollen and distorted 
(probably by water in the weak alcohol) in which are appropriate 
openings for the tubular structure of the testicle. These tubes 
contain no cells, however. In their neighborhood is a deposit of 
brownish pigment, the result either of frequent congestion or of 
extravasation of blood. 
The other piece, designated by you as a sarcocele, is equally 
soft; and any cellular elements that it may have contained, are 
not now to be found. It shows only swollen and distorted con¬ 
nective tissue—fibres without characteristic arrangement.” 
Every member of the veterinary profession in America must 
have at least one interesting case in his practice during each year. 
If all of these were reported, the Review and individual veterina¬ 
rians would be greatly benefited. 
