diseases from animals to man, and from man to animals. This latter fact is clearly shown in an article, by Dr. George Fleming, editor of the British "Veterinary Journal," in an article on Tuberculosis from a sanitary and pathological point of view. It is here shown conclusively by experiments performed by different investigators, that tubercles can be communicated by individuals of the bovine species to each other; also that these are communicable in the case of others of the lower animals, such as the dog, rabbit, etc. That they can be communicated by respiration and by inoculation, and as already well known, that they can be transmitted from the parent to the offspring. That they may be conveyed through the milk of tuberculous cows to hogs, and other animals fed upon it.

It has also been demonstrated that they may be communicated from animals to man, by inoculating. In proof of the above, he gives as authority, Gerlach, Gray, Epstein, Bromley, Toussaint, and others. To this we may add the testimony of Drs. Law, D. W. Voyles, Detmers, and D. E. Salmon veterinary surgeons, who, each for himself, and independently of the other instituted a series of experiments to ascertain the communicability of hog cholera, and bovine lung-plague

The results of these investigations will come home to any of our readers of average intelligence. We hope that our legislators will hereafter be deterred from interfering with these investigations, or the investigators who are by these experiments throwing so much light in the dark places of the laws of life.

We notice, in a commmunication published in the Veterinary Journal, that the Veterinary profession is becoming a political force. We are glad to make note of this fact, for it seems to us that through no other channel can substantial aid be had to support the cause of Veterinary science, than through our lawmakers. Veterinary science in Great Britain, as in this country, is languishing, not from the want of interest, but from the lack of funds to conduct the experimental researches, which are necessary to nourish from infancy to maturity this all-important branch of

practical science. Agricultural colleges have received munificent appropriations. Literary colleges, and schools have also received public aid. Astronomical and meteorological observatories have all received aid from government on the ground of the public good; but this important branch has been practically neglected, both practice and investigation has been left in the hands of private individuals, who by their enthusiasm and love for these studies, have reacted upon the schools, while depending on their own resources mainly, supplemented to some extent by the necessarily small resources of their pupils. We hope, therefore, that the legislature of the State of New York will, at its next session, be fully awakened to a sense of its duty in this regard, and give to these schools some substantial aid in the way of appropriations, to enable them to carry on such investigations as may be necessary. We will simply refer to the scientific investigations carried on abroad and at home, and to the accomplished men required to make them. These all result in good to the general public.

REVIEWS.

The report of Dr. James Law, of Ithaca, N. Y., on the contagious diseases and' parasites of animals, published in the Bulletin of the National Board of Health, Vol. 2, No. 4, merits more than usual attention. He gives in it a list of diseases and parasites which may be communicated from animals to man and from animals to each other, which we below append, and in doing so, suggest that three others be credited to the first section, viz.: Scarlet fever in the Felida and pertussis and catarrhal conjunctivitis in the Canine. It shows very conclusively by a simple arrangement of facts that the sanitary condition of our domestic animals and birds should be looked into by those who are qualified to judge, as well as that of human beings, to insure a greater degree of public health. Since both animals and birds. are subject to these contagious diseases, the epidemics of such nature in isolated and distant places, should and cannot be any longer enveloped in mystery.

Glanders, hydrophobia, anthrax, and vaccine have long been known to be communicable from animals to men, but many others of the list are of recent discovery. The same is likewise true of many of the parasitic plagues.

A-Contagia common to Man and Animals.

1. Glanders and farcy in horses, etc.

2. Canine madness, rabies in dogs, cats, etc. 3. Malignant anthrax in all domestic animals.

4. Tuberculosis in all animals.

5. Asiatic (malignant) cholera in all animals.

6. Milk-sickness in cows and other animals.

7. Small pox in chickens, pigeons, etc.

8. Eczematous (aphthous) fever in bisulcates, etc. 9. Typhoid fever (?) in sucking animals.

10. Diphtheria in animals.

B-Parasites common to Man and Animals.

1. Echinococcus in animals: Tania echinococcus in dogs.

2. Cysticercus cellulosa in swine: Tænia solium in man.

3. C. medio-cannellata in calves: T. medio-cannellata in man. 4. C. tenuicollis in man, sheep, etc.: T. marginata in dogs.

5. Tænia elliptica in man and cat.

6. Bothriocephalus latus in man, dog, etc.

7. B. cordatus in man, dog, etc

8. Trichina spiralis in swine, etc.

9. Tricocephalus dispar in man and pig.

10. Strongylos gigas in man, horse, ox, and dog.

11. Ascaris mystax in cat and human being.

12. Fasciola hepatica in man, herbivora, and omnivora.

13 Distomum lanceolatum in man, herbivora, and omnivora. 14. Pentastoma taenioides in man, dog, sheep, etc.

15. Sarcoptis mutans in chickens and man.

16. Demodex folliculorum in dog, sheep and man.

17. Estrus bovis and other cuticolla in cattle and man.

18. Gregarina in man and animals.

19. Tricophyton tousurans in man and animal (Tinea tonsurans.) 20. Achorion schönleini in man and animals (Tinea favosa.) 21. Microsporon adonini in man and animals (Tinea decalvans.) 22. Oidium albicans in man and animals (Thrush. m. uguet.)

C-Contagia communicable from one animal to another.

1. Texas fever in cattle.

2. Swine plague. Intestinal fever of swine. Hog cholera. 3. Bovine lung plague. Contagious pleuro-pneumonia in cattle. 4. Rhinderpest in cattle and other ruminants.

5. Sheep pox. Variola ovina.

6. Swine-pox. V. suilla.

7. Cow-pox. Horse-pox.

8. Venereal diseases of stallions. Dourine.

9. Foot-rot in sheep.

10. Strangles in horses.

II. Influenza in animals.

12. Infectious mammitis in cows.

13. Parturition fever in ewes.

14. Quebra bunda in horses.

15. Horse sickness of South Africa.

D-Parasites causing enzootics in animals.

1. Scabies acariasis:

In sheep

In horse

In ox.....

Poultry mange. Dermanyssus avium, etc.

Foot mange. Dermatophagus equi

Mange. Dermatocoptis bovis.

Foot mange. Dermatophagus bovis.

Poultry mange. Dermanyssus avium, etc.

In pigs and dogs, mange. Sarcoptis suis, (Squamiferous.)
In dog... {Mange. Sarcoptis squamiferous, (Suis.)

Follicular mange.

Demodex folliculorum.

In sheep, goat, and camel Strongylus filaria, varietas longus.

Strongylus Africana.

In horse and ox, Strongylus micrurus.

In swine, Strongylus elongatus.

In birds, gapes. Sclerostomum syngamus.

3. Selerostomum hy ostomum in sheep.

4. Strongylus filicollis in sheep.

5. Strongylus contortus in sheep and cattle.

6. Sclerostomum equinum in horse.

7. S. tetracanthum in horse.

8. S. suis in swine.

9. Tricocephalus affinis in cattle and sheep.

10. Stephanurus dentata in swine.

II. Echinorynchus gigas in swine, cockroach, ladybug, etc.

12. Ascaris suilla in swine.

13. Tænia expansa in sheep and cattle.

14. Conurus cerebralis in sheep, cattle, dogs, etc.

15. Estrus ovis, grub in the head, in sheep.

The a ticle by George Fleming, F. R. C. V. S., on Tuberculosis from a sanitary and pathological point of view. published in the Veterinary Journal and concluded in the August number, is full of important facts for every reader to consider.

He arrays old, well-established truths in new forms, and strengthens them by his own experience and the experience of other observers of the highest character; also gives many startling developments, the results of late experiments and observation, such as the positive communication of tuberculosis from animal to animal of the same and of different species, and from animal to man, and the character and condition by which it may be done.

The National Live Stock Journal of Chicago, an able and admirable Journal, contains in its September number a most sensible article on the cattle business of the western plains. In this article the editor deals in truth, and not in fiction; in facts, and not in theory.