I. AGRICULTURE AND RURAL ECONOMY. 337 



bation ; is very often cured in its first period, and is some- 

 times cured at a more advanced stage. 4 B, 1871, 827. 



CUKE OF ENTERITIS IX HORSES. 



Dr. Mooer, a veterinary surgeon in London, has, it is said, 

 been very successful in curing enteritis in the horse by ad- 

 ministering morphia in conjunction with chloroform. He 

 first introduces a full dose of mprphia subcutaneously, and if 

 the severe and violent pain is not relieved in a few hours, he 

 casts the horse and administers chloroform by inhalation. 

 He has succeeded in producing profound, unbroken sleep in 

 seven or eight hours by the use of one ounce of chloroform, 

 the patient waking at the end of that time quite convales- 

 cent. 20 A, March 30, 1872, 383. 



ENZOOTIC MISCARRIAGE IN CATTLE. 



M. Bouley, well known for his researches into the subject 

 of the diseases of cattle, such as carbuncle, etc., has lately 

 made a communication to the Academy of Sciences of Paris, 

 based upon some investigations of M. Zundel upon epidemic, 

 or what he calls enzootic miscarriage in cattle. He states 

 that it has Ions; been known that when a cow undergoes a 

 miscarriage in a stable occupied by other cows in a condi- 

 tion of gestation, this accident does not remain isolated, but, 

 on the contrary, and in fact very commonly, the remaining 

 animals miscarry successively, as though a contagious princi- 

 ple had been disengaged from the first case and communi- 

 cated to all the others. It has already been shown by ex- 

 periment that if the liquids discharged by a cow that has 

 just miscarried be introduced into the vagina of another cow 

 nearly at full term, the miscarriage will take place in the sec- 

 ond case. 



According to Franck, this is produced by the micrococci 

 or bacterias, which exist in an extraordinary quantity upon 

 the foetal envelopes, and conduce to their decomposition. 

 These, being introduced into the vagina, multiply with great 

 rapidity, penetrate to the uterus, and there initiate that de- 

 composition of which abortion is the consequence. 



M. Roloff, on his part, has stated his belief that this enzo- 

 otic miscarriage results from the introduction into the vagina 

 of substances which have been tainted by the vaginal dis- 



