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laryngeal psorospermosis of the goat, observed by Von ISTieder- 

 hausern, Dammann, and others. 



Treatment. The treatment of coccidiosis is the same as for the 

 preceding diseases; we must practise prophylaxis before everything 

 else. Separate the healthy from the sick animals, and disinfect 

 the stables. Internally we may use mercurial antiseptics ; calomel 

 might, perhaps, give favorable results. 



A few authors (Zschokke/ Semmer,^ etc., have found in the liver 

 of pigs cysticerci of the Tœnia marginata.^ 



DISEASES OP THE PANCREAS. 



Diseases of the pancreas are extremely rare in our animals, and 

 generally they are only discovered at the autopsy. They remain 

 unnoticed, because, as a rule, they are neither accompanied by any 

 physical symptoms nor by any rational phenomena. This quiet 

 evolution of the morbid conditions of the pancreas is easily under- 

 stood when we take into account the deep location of this organ, 

 protected by the sub-lumbar arch and the mass of abdominal vis- 

 cera, and if we remember its physiological function, shared by 

 other glands of the digestive tract. Serious troubles may, how- 

 ever, be produced, affecting also neighboring organs, especially 

 when complicated by alterations of the liver. 



• PANCREATITIS. 



Inflammation of the pancreas is acute or chronic. The principal 

 symptoms which are ascribed to it are ; a depressed condition, a 

 more or less apparent febrile disturbance, geq.eral emaciation, and 



^ Zschokke : Schweizer Archiv, 1887. 



2 Semmer: Deutsche Zeitschr. fiir Thiermed., 1885. 



^ Mégnin has observed in the horse a case of chronic hepatitis which was deter- 

 mined \)Y t\iQ Sclerostoma armatum. The median lobe of the liver was transformed 

 into a true fibro-plastic tumor, in which the hepatic tissue had completely disap- 

 peared ; it was marked with small blood-cysts, all containing the worms, and, in 

 addition, nodes containing embryos of the same worm more or less developed. The 

 parasite was also found in the small vessels. (Lourdel and Mégnin ; Bull. Soo. Vét., 



1884.)— N. D. T. 



