EDITORIAL. 
437 
Turning to their published list of officers of the Board of Ag¬ 
riculture, Dr. C. B. Miehener appears as the veterinary surgeon, 
and presumably he is the “ our surgeon,” who is treating conta¬ 
gious pi euro-pneumonia with ‘‘the fumes of burning sulphur’' as 
a measure of eradication. 
A more suicidal policy than that adopted by the State of Penn¬ 
sylvania, as inferred from the report before us, can scarcely be 
conceived. Better far for the interests of the country and the 
veterinary profession, that the disease be allowed to follow its own 
course, than that a tampering policy should be attempted, which 
can only result in disaster. The admissions of the special agent 
of the Governor show that he either knows nothing whatever of 
the dangers attending the disease with which he is dealing, or else 
is blind to the responsibilities which the State has placed on him. 
In his commission, the Governor directs his agent to slaughter 
diseased animals whenever it is found necessary, and yet treat¬ 
ment is attempted upon some, while others are freed from quar¬ 
antine before they are free from the disease ! Such measures can 
never prove effective as a means of suppression, and the presumed 
security which official assurance will serve to cultivate in the peo¬ 
ple, must react to produce an unguarded spread of a disease so in¬ 
sidious as pleuro-pneumonia. 
“ Abortion arnong cows ” is also treated of in this report by 
Isaiah Miehener, V.S., chairman of a committee, appointed by 
Governor Hoyt, to investigate this disease. The report offers 
nothing new, and omits very much of importance that is already 
known to the profession, concerning this very interesting subject. 
HYDROPHOBIA. 
The recent experiments of M. Raynaud prove conclusively 
that the saliva of hydrophobic human patients is capable of trans¬ 
mitting the disease to the lower animals, and presumably also to 
man. 
His experiments consisted in the inoculation of rabbits with 
saliva from a patient, the day before his death, which served to 
