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of Germany, and it appears from M. ZundeFs statement, in 
Alsace, the border land between the two kingdoms. Gene- 
rally known as “fragility of the bones , ” “ cachexia ossafraga/’ 
“ossium fragilitas pecorum/’ “osteomalacia/’ &c., and to 
the Germans by the name of “ knochenbrechigkeil/’ M. 
Zundel proposes to give it the designation of “ osteoclasty” 
(from oijteov, bone, \\ckjj, break ; xAaoyxa, fracture ; 
from thence the words osteoclasis, osteoclasma, and the adjective 
osteoclasticus. 
In the early volumes of the Veterinarian the malady is 
noticed in translations from German journals, and since that 
period it lias received most careful attention by several emi- 
nent veterinarians, and more particularly by Roloff, who, in 
‘ Virchow’s Archives’ (vol. xxxvii), has published an almost 
exhaustive monograph on the subject as it presented itself 
to him in Prussian Saxony. In the present instalment, M. 
Zundel does little more than refer to the frequency of the 
malady in Alsace, where it is only observed in a special 
region — the Rhenish portion of the plain, or basse plaine , 
the geological and botanical features of which he carefully 
studies, and then enters into details of the symptoms. These 
we may revert to at another time when the concluding section 
of the essay shall have been published. 
TWO CASES OF ANTHRAX DISEASE CURED BY CARBOLIC 
ACID. 
By M. Patjleau. 
A horse and a cow exhibiting symptoms of anthrax of a 
serious character were speedily cured by the administration 
of carbolic acid in the form of draught and enema. The 
cow was despaired of, but three doses of the acid, two table- 
spoonfuls to the half pint of tepid water, at an interval of 
half an hour, and three enemas containing the same propor- 
tion of acid, restored her to health in a few hours. 
WOUNDS OF NERVES; RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CEN- 
TRIPETAL AND CENTRIFUGAL CURRENTS IN LESIONS 
OF NERVES; AND THE RULES WHICH THE SURGEON 
SHOULD FOLLOW IN THE RE-SECTION OF NERVES. 
By Giuseppe Ruggi. 
In the work with the above heading, the following are the 
principal points of the several opinions put forward by M. 
Ruggi 
1. When the continuity of a nerve has been interrupted 
