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colic in the horse, which cannot be too widely published. It 
is relative to what an attendant should do before the arrival 
of the veterinary surgeon, when he has an animal so affected. 
Often it is deemed sufficient to allow the horse plenty of 
litter on which to roll about freely, but it is a fact that this 
procedure is not seldom followed by intestinal lesions which 
bring on a fatal termination. In fact, how can we expect 
that these disordered and violent movements should be less 
offensive in horses which have the stomach and intestines 
distended by food or gas than an accidental slip or fall, which 
so frequently cause injury? According to Jessen, Director 
of the Veterinary School at Dorpat, who has practised vete- 
rinary medicine with so much success for half a century, we 
ought to prevent horses affected with colic from knocking 
about and throwing themselves down on the ground. 
Recueil de Medecine Veterinaire, August , 1870. 
The number for last August of our excellent contemporary 
has just come to hand, the disastrous events of the lament- 
able war between the two great continental powers having 
suspended its transmission. It is to be hoped, however, that 
our colleagues were not compelled to delay the publication of 
the journal for the succeeding months, as we have been look- 
ing forward with much interest — we had almost written 
anxiety — for professional tidings of many veterinary surgeons 
in the French army whose names have become familiar to us 
through their writings, and of whose safety we shall be glad 
to hear. Their experience of the campaign, in a professional 
point of view, will be most interesting to veterinary surgeons 
in the British army at least. Their confreres in civil life, espe- 
cially those in Paris, will have a scarcely less interesting nar- 
rative of their experience of war, as it affects the lower 
animals ; and we, therefore, earnestly hope that we may be 
favoured with all the numbers of the journal up to the advent 
of peace. 
MEMOIR ON THE OSTEOCLASTY OE CATTLE, 
PARTICULARLY STUDIED IN ALSACE. 
By M. Austjste Zundel. 
M. Zundel, the zealous and talented veterinary surgeon 
of Mulhouse, to whose writings we have on several occasions 
referred, has commenced a memoir on a malady which, 
though not altogether unknown in this country and rare in 
France, is yet enzootic, and even epizootic, in several parts 
