ogether. Furthermore, a great part of the drug is excreted through the
milk, making the milk unfit for use. It should not be given to animals in
advanced pregnancy, as there is danger of producing abortion.

The best results are obtained by pushing the drug until its effect is seen.
The many tests to which this treatment has been subjected have proved, with
few exceptions, its specific curative value. In addition to this the tumor
should be painted externally with either the tincture of iodin or Lugol's
solution, or the drug should be injected subcutaneously into the tumor.

Godbille has given as much as 4 drams of potassium iodid in one day to a
steer, decreasing the dose one-fourth dram each day until the dose was
1-1/4 drams, which was maintained until the twelfth day of treatment, when
the animal appeared to be entirely cured.

Nocard gave the first day 1-1/2 drams in one dose to a cow; the second and
succeeding days a dose of 1 dram in the morning and evening, in each case
before feeding. This treatment was continued for 10 days, when the animal
was cured.

_Actinomycosis and the public health._--The interest which is shown
concerning this cattle disease is largely due to the fact that the same
disease attacks human beings. Its slow progress, its tendency to remain
restricted to certain localities, and the absence of any directly
contagious properties have thus far not aroused any anxiety in other
countries as to its influence on the cattle industry, not even to the point
of placing it among the infectious diseases of which statistics are
annually published. Its possible bearing on public health has, however,
given the disease a place in the public mind which it hardly deserves.

It has already been stated that the actinomyces fungus found in human
disease is considered by authorities the same as that occurring in bovine
affections. It is therefore of interest to conclude this article with a
brief discussion of the disease in man and its relation to actinomycosis in
cattle.

In man the location of the disease process corresponds fairly well to that
in cattle. The majority of cases which have been reported in different
parts of the world--and they are now rather numerous--indicate disease of
the face. The skin, tongue, or the jawbones may become affected, and by a
very slow process it may extend downward upon the neck and even into the
cavity of the chest. In many cases the teeth have been found in a state of
m