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l)y Mr. Fleming in tlie Veterinary Journal. It relates more 
specially to the horse, and the author indicates the influence of 
age, sex, food, exercise, external temperature, of clipping and 
bleeding upon the internal temperature. lie says “Cow of nine 
years (thirty-ninth observation), average temperature 38.9° C. or 
102° Fall. (Krabbe gives 38.8° and Davy 38.9.) Compared to 
that of the horse, the diurnal variation was slight. The minu- 
mum > temperature observed at midnight was 38.7, and the maxi¬ 
mum temperature at five o’clock, 39.1° or 102.3° Fall. Food had 
no influence.” Siedamgrotzky makes the following wise remarks, 
“Hie temperature of the body depends on the quantity of heat 
produced and that consumed.” Greater will the production of 
heat be and smaller the consumed quantity, more will the temper¬ 
ature of the body be elevated. Even with an increase of the 
heat, the temperature of the body will be but little raised if the 
consumed quantity is great. The principal regulators of the 
temperature of the body are the epidermis, thp hairs, etc., etc. 
(To be continued.') 
IDENTITY IN DISEASES. 
By F. S. BILLINGS. 
The reflecting peruser of veterinary literature must be often 
astonished at the freedom with which some words are used by 
various writers, used with an entire leant of comprehension of 
their meaning. Such a one is “ Identical.” 
In the very brief abstract, which we have had the pleasure of 
presenting to our readers, from the Keport of the Bavarian 
Minister to his Government with reference to the extension of 
tuberculosis among the cattle of that kingdom, appears the fol¬ 
lowing words,—their connection may be seen in the abstract : 
“ according to which no more doubt can remain of the identity 
of the so-often-appearing ‘ Perlsucht’ ‘ Tuberculosisof cattle , 
with the disease of the same name of man.'’'’ And in the Veter¬ 
inary Journal, Vol. 6, page 20, may be seen an article from the 
