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tion of the patients, failed to explain the appearance of a 
state of things which can only be attributed to a momen¬ 
tary enervation of the stomach or the oesophagus, or per¬ 
haps of both, at the same time. The distension of the 
abdomen, the restlessness, &c., are to be attributed to general 
sympathy with the affected organ. According to the symp¬ 
toms, the treatment must be localized to the parts affected, 
and ought to consist of a powerful anaesthetic. The author 
gave preference to chloroform, combined with olive oil, 
in the proportion of ten grammes to the ounce ; six hours 
after the application of this embrocation the spasm had dis¬ 
appeared, and the animal was in its usual state of health. 
Eczema Ejnzootica .—This aphthous disease is so well known 
that it would be useless to describe it. I will, therefore, says 
M. Guilmot, confine myself to two cases in which it has been 
transmitted to the human subject. These cases are, however, 
not rare, as the history of epizootics records several. Sagas 
relates that during the prevalence of eczema in Moravia, in 
1764, all the inmates of a convent contracted the malady 
from having drunk the milk of the affected cows. During the 
epizootic of 1827, in Bohemia, several persons were attacked 
by febrile symptoms, 'which terminated in an eruption in the 
mouth and feet. In 1834, Professor Hertwig and two phy¬ 
sicians of Berlin contracted the malady through drinking 
the milk of diseased cows. Hertwig had vesicles on his 
hands. In November, 1831, the author observed two similar 
cases ; the first was that of a little girl, two years old, who 
contracted the disease after having drunk some raw milk from 
a diseased cow. The mouth only was affected in this case. 
The second was a servant, tw'enty-seven years old, belonging 
to the same farm, who caught the disease from milking a 
diseased cow, she having abrasion of the skin of her hands, 
with which the fluid of the vesicles had come in contact. Not 
only the hands, but the mouth also, became affected in this 
case. In both these cases the appearance of the vesicles was 
preceded by febrile symptoms, heaviness in the head, and loss 
of appetite. The malady lasted six days. If the use of raw 
milk is capable of transmitting the disease, will it also 
when boiled, or mixed with tea or coffee ? Though 
the author advises to abstain from using the milk of the 
affected cows generally, still he knows many persons who 
have used it boiled and in their coffee with impunity; but 
this does not hold good in other animals, as some pigs con¬ 
tracted the disease from eating food with the boiled milk of 
diseased cows. There could not have been any other cause 
in this last case, as the pigs had been shut up during the 
