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case. The subject of this case was a small cow, eighteen 
years old, in very low condition. She was in a state of pro¬ 
found coma, the pulse small and quick, reaction almost dull, 
the extremities cold. Administered the sulphate of soda and 
emetic tartar in decoctions of linseed, with aloetic injections 
every hour; dry clothing, setons in the dewlap. The animal 
died at midnight. Autopsy .—The brain and its envelopes 
perfectly healthy, likewise the thoracic and abdominal organs, 
with the exception of the uterus, which presented some 
traces of inflammation. 
Recueil de Medecine Veterinaire , Dec., 1861. 
INOCULATION FOR CONTAGIOUS TYPHUS IN RUSSIA. 
By M. L. Prangs. 
Typhus in horned cattle is a disease very little known 
amongst us, but it is too important a malady for us to disre¬ 
gard the statements which reach us from time to time from 
those far countries where it prevails, generally in a most fatal, 
disastrous form. However, the course that has been pursued 
for some time, by inoculation, appears to lead to results still 
more favorable than those already obtained ; and all cause us 
to hope that in future, as agriculture progresses and railways 
are multiplied, the number of victims carried off every year 
by this plague will decrease. 
The inoculations made in 1857-8, on an estate of the 
Grand Duchess Helena, at Karlowscha, in the govern¬ 
ment of Pultowa, and which were directed by Veterinary 
Surgeon Raussach, have given very satisfactory results. Pro¬ 
fessor Jessen asserts that animals which have recovered 
of the typhus, whether attacked in the usual way or by ino¬ 
culation, are generally preserved from a second attack, and 
those on which the inoculation has only produced external 
effects are likewise similarly preserved. In 1854 and 1855, 
at the veterinary establishment of Dorpat, some beneficial 
results were obtained from inoculation, but the malady thus 
transmitted was of so malignant a character that nearly all 
the animals died. Nearly the same results followed at the 
veterinary school, for out of nine individuals inoculated with 
the primitive virus seven died, one was cured, and on one 
the virus had no effect. 
At Kazan the results were more favorable, with secondary 
virus taken from the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth ge- 
