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This treatment was continued daily till 1st July, when Iiq. bituminis lotion (I -20) was applied daily. The left epiphysis of the protruding bone came off.

I4tll JU0'o-Healthy granulations had quite covered the bone; applied liq. bitum. lotion and dry dressing every two days.

22nd Ju0'.-W as so far healed as to be measured for a leather socket to fit on the extremity in order to supply the place of the lost digits.

The bottom of the socket was carefully padded with wadding and horse-hair, and applied to the lim b on the 26th.

The photograph (Fig. I, Plate VI.) was taken on the 22nd c;>f August, and the animal has progressed very favourably, and appar­ently suffered very little inconvenience from the loss of her foot.

AN EPIDEMIC OF TYPHOID CAUSED BY MILK.

AN epidemic of typhoid broke out in the two prisons of Strasburg in 1880,

after twenty years freedom from that disease. All the patients attacked with typhoid in that year had consumed milk from a particular locality. Of those who had used this milk once or oftener 17 per cent. were attacked with typhoid, whereat; out of 300 other persons who did not use the milk not one was attacked with typhoid. The milk had been consumed in the raw con­dition, and when its use was stopped the epidemic came to an end.-­Zeitsdlrift jar Fleisdl und Mildlh)'gielle, January 1894.

THE PARASITE OF FAVUS.

:\-IM. CONSTANTIN and SABRA YES have studied the course of favus in man, the dog, and the fo'V1. This study has led them to conclude that three distinct parasites are the cause of the disease in the three species mentioned.

The fungus found in human favus is nearly related to that of the dog, but distinguished from the latter. by its appearance in culture, by the invariable structure of its mycelium, and by its colour. The fungus found in favus of the fowl is altogether different from that found in favus of the human subject or the dog.-Recueil de MCdecille ~f:terillaire.

MEAT AND SAUSAGE POISONING •

• \ GERMAN journal publishes an account of an instance in which over 100

persons became ill after eating the flesh of a cow that had been slaughtered while suffering from foot-and-mouth disease. The flesh had been eaten in the

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form of mmce and sausages. In all the patients the symptoms were those of acute gastro-enteritis; only one of the affected persons died, and in that case the post-mortem showed the lesions of acute enteritis and also con­gestion of the brain and its membranes.

The clinical and bacteriological examination of the tissues of this individual and of the remains of the sausage held accountable for the sickness had a negative result.-Zeitscllriftfitr Fleisdz lind Mikhhygiene, January 1894.

THE IDENTITY OF HUMAN AND BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS.

BOLLINGER has recently published an account of an experiment, which he made fifteen years ago. The experiment consisted in the intra-peritoneal inoculation of a three-months-old calf with tuberculous material from a human being. The calf was killed seven months after inoculation, and at the jost-mortem pedunculated nodules, varying in sIze from a pea to a walnut, were found in the mesentery and on the capsule of the ~pleen. Tuberculous lesions were also present in the retro-peritoneal and me~enteric lymphatic glands. By this experiment the Identity of the so-called" Perlsucht " of the ox with human tuberculosis was proved before the discovery of the ~pecific bacilli.-Zeitschr{ft jiir Fleisclz ,md Milclzlly[{iene, January 1894.

THE ETIOLOGY OF DIAPHRAGMATIC HERNIA.

M. HAAN, at the autopsy of a mare that had died after exhibiting violent symptoms of colic, found a large diaphragmatic hernia. The hernia had taken place through a rupture of the aponeurotic centre of the diaphragm, and the cicatrisation of the lips of the hole in the diaphragm left no doubt that the lesion was of long standing. The author supposes that this mare had lived for a long time with the tear in the diaphragm, but without that becoming complicated by a hernia, that having been prevented by contact of the 5tomach with the defect. M. Haan believes that such lacerations of the diaphragm are brought about by leaping or other violent movements, especi­ally when the abdominal viscera are distended to an abnormal degree.­Recueil de Afedecine V!:terillaz"re.

FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE.

FROM experiments recently made by him Schuetz draws the following conclusions regarding the virus of this disease :--

1. The saliva of animals affected with foot-and-mouth disease is frequently non-infective.

2. Healthy animals can be infected with certainty by means of the contents of the vesicles which form during the course of disease.

3. When animals are infected by conveying the contents of vesicles into the mouth the period of incllbation is from forty to sixty hours.

4. The virus of foot-and-mouth disease is de~troyed by desiccation. 5. It is also destroyed with certainty by a solution containing 3 per cent.

of soap and 5 per cent. of crude carbolic acid.-A rchi'i'. j TVissellScll. 11. Prakt. Thierheilk.