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Show UirilTiiEKfA IX ASIJIAL5!. TUB ntOlUELK CACBB- OP MANY JlYSTEBIOCS OCTURCAK8 OK Tilt: DISEASE. For touio years scieutlflc men liavctufjectetl Hat Cfrtaln of the iloniestlc animals arc liable to suHVr from a disease that Is Identical with human diphtheria. It .Is now unl-versally unl-versally aUmltttxl thatcalves.liorsi'S, cato. lowls, turkeys and pheasants are llalile'Sto a uLttase having.the veryciofitrecnibIaucu to diphtheria diphthe-ria in the human being and there an: a DiimWr of cases on record In which tills tliseaM la the animals j rtcetlcdrroaip lulcU or followed an epidemic of human dliJilberU. Dr. Jacob!, of Xew Vork, meutluna a case: Kiveclill. Irii weie 111 with diphtheria in oue bcusr, three kittens kit-tens that played with them died, and pust-rcortciu examinations ahowed diphtheric membranes In their throats. Dr. Ilrucc Low mentions men-tions an Interesting; cjt: A cat living; In the houe with a boy that lad dlphtlieria took the disease, commuulrattd it to tliu cat of an-otiirrperMin, an-otiirrperMin, and four little glib rnat nunvd Uie second cat Utame HI with diphtheria. i iernarui nan 4iuuiieu a case uiai seems to show that diphtheria of liens may bo con-munica(ed to tlpgi, and mm, notwithstanding Ihe opinions opin-ions of IxK-HIer, Pfei!er and Klein to the contrary. Alirgo numlerof hens ere brought from Verona to a villagein Hadenome verysuQerlnr; with the dlae when tiny arrived, and about half of them died. All the chickens bred in IncuUiton. died: four cats Le t in tlio place died of diphtheria, and four of the nix men on this oultry farm bad diphtheria. diph-theria. In ISSo Dr. C. J. Itenshaw dicrllvd K.ni9 casoi in which cab) tliat haj awallowed (ortions ol dlplitheritlc mcnibrano from human aullervrs li.'fcl of a d eau rveiu-Hn; rveiu-Hn; diphtheria; soine mice alio coutraclvd the ulsuu in the same way a very thtuillcaut fart. More recently Dr. Klein has found that cabsmty lie inoculated vtith diphtheria diph-theria from tlio human, and that other cats may take Ihe d.woe from the drat. There facts are v ry tlgnlllcaut as showing how mauy myatnlous cut-breaks cut-breaks of dithtberU hi certain housoi and localities may be cauted. They tliow also the value of a thorough study of animal diMxuei-; nnd iu oru'er to hluJy these the low tr auinuils rau.-t be txin'rimeut-eduron, txin'rimeut-eduron, iiGtttiUitat.dliig the aa-crtiocs aa-crtiocs of aLlI-vivi.ttluu!U that we can learn uUhing fn.m kuch ex-perimenls, ex-perimenls, u hlcli, as they foolishly clslm, are merely t liibltfons of un-n un-n eruAry ciut liy. Ituco-to IltruUL |