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EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. ' 
at this report of the Veterinary Department of the Privy Coun¬ 
cil, we would like to know what the medical papers of the United 
States would say, if they knew of the state of health of the 
domestic animals in this country.— (Ed.) 
TRANSMISSIBILITY OF TUBERCULOSIS BY THE MILK AND THE 
JUICE OF RAW MEATS. 
In order to elucidate the question of the transmission of 
tuberculosis with milk, Mr. Pencil has experimented with that of 
a cow, suffering with the disease, and giving only three or four 
liters of milk a day. This was given to two young pigs and two 
rabbits. The results obtained tend to prove that tuberculosis is 
transmissable by the milk, such as taken from the cow. After 
presenting this report Mr. Bouley presented a bottle contain¬ 
ing portions of lungs, liver, spleen, the phrenic center of the dia¬ 
phragm and bronchia and sub-maxillary ganglions obtained from 
a live months old pig, killed sixty-seven days after the inoculation 
of two cubic centimeters of juice of meat, obtaining by pressure 
of a piece of the ischio-tibial muscles of the same tuberculous 
cow. The lesions were those of a very advanced stage of dis¬ 
ease. 
Mr. Bouley says that these facts prove in an incontestible 
manner the transmissibility of tuberculosis by the milk, not 
boiled, and by the inoculation of the juice of raw meat. The 
danger is manifest and it is necessary that the public should be 
put on their guard—the inspection of slaughter houses must be 
more rigorous than now .—(Gazette Medicate .) 
THE ETIOLOGY OF ANTHRAX. 
In a communication to the Academy of Sciences, Mr. Pasteur, 
after recording the recent researches he had made on the subject, 
and without any expression of surprise that the Academy should 
doubt the exactitude of the facts he had presented regarding the 
contagious properties of the .earth, which is such a powerful 
sifter, says: “ The members of the Academy will be very much 
