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discouraging. Alsace and Lorraine, and the valleys of the 
Meuse, the Marne, and the Seine contain many centres of 
the disease, while under existing circumstances the means of 
its extermination cannot be rigorously enforced. 
Although suppressed in several of the German states, fresh 
outbreaks of the plague continue to occur along the route 
of the army, and it is much to be feared that these will be 
supplemented by infected cattle drawn from Galicia and 
Poland. Both these countries are suffering to a most alarm- 
ing extent, and the same may be said of Transylvania and 
Buckowina. The disease also prevails in Roumania and 
other parts of Turkey in Europe. 
SHEEP-SCAB. 
The accounts both from home and abroad indicate that 
sheep-scab is very prevalent at the present time. Whether, 
however, it is really more rife than common, the want of 
accurate statistics does not enable us to say. During the 
past month several importations of sheep affected with scab 
have taken place. Infected cargoes were detected as coming 
from Bremen, Hamburg, and Antwerp. In every instance 
the animals were slaughtered at the place of landing. 
INJURIOUS EFFECTS OF EATING WHEAT. 
Mr. Broad, M.R.C.Y.S., Bath, writes us as follows : — 
“ A professional friend has told me that he was called a 
short time since to attend three cart-horses which had broken 
loose in the night and eaten a large quantity of wheat. When 
my friend saw them on the following morning, the animals 
appeared partially paralysed, and it was with much difficulty 
that they could be induced to move. Tympanitis was present, 
and the animals were suffering considerable pain. The pulse 
was about 60, and the visible mucous membranes highly 
injected. 
“ The treatment consisted in giving to each horse during 
the day about two pints of linseed oil and two pounds of 
melted lard; oatmeal gruel with treacle, and injections of 
warm soapy water w r ere added. For above sixty hours the 
horses suffered considerably, after which time the wheat began 
to come away in large quantities, when an abatement in the 
