TRANSLATIONS FROM CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 59 
that portion relating to veterinary medicine, is a report of 
the state of the medical and veterinary establishments in the 
Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, with a general statement 
of health during the year I860. 
One pleasing feature in this report is that the veterinary 
department forms a not unimportant part of it. It contains 
an account of all the epidemic and epizootic affections which 
occurred in the year, with interesting cases that have taken 
place in private practice, as well as those which were in the 
hospitals and veterinary establishments. It contains also a 
barometrical and thermometrical account as to the state of the 
weather, the direction of the wind, &c., during every month 
in the year. 
In looking to the report of the veterinary school, we find 
that 438 patients were admitted, viz., 247 horses, 2 foals, 4 
beasts, 30 sheep, 7 goats, 2 pigs, 138 dogs, 7 cats, and 1 fowl. 
Out of which 349 were cured, 30 were incurable, and 59 died 
or were ordered to be killed. The total number of days 
they were in the infirmary of the school was 7582, at a cost 
of 87l6f. 55c. for medicine and keep. 
The author observes that it is remarkable that only two 
cases of typhus occurred in the horse during the year. The 
majority of cases terminating fatally were inflammation of 
the lungs. This, however, is not to be attributed to the 
frequency of the malady, but more to the delay of the owners 
in not applying for medical aid before the disease had pro¬ 
gressed too far. Of 31 cases of colic, 2 died. On a post¬ 
mortem section being made, in one neither inflammation nor 
any other cause of death could be discovered; in the other the 
stomach w r as ruptured. Of contagious diseases, mange 
amongst horses, sheep, dogs, and cats, v T as observed to exist, 
also glanders and farcy in horses. Professor Schiff, of Bern, in 
his yearly report, mentions the frequent occurrence of an 
eruption about the head in cats. On a more careful exami¬ 
nation, he found it to be mange, and he describes the insect 
as the sarcoptus, and compares the disease to the Norwegian 
mange in man. This confirms the observations made by the 
author in his report of 1857, and also his experience that it 
does not yield to the usual remedies employed in the treat¬ 
ment of mange, but that the ointment of creasote, when 
applied in time, is followed wdth the best results. 
