TRANSLATIONS FROM CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 489 
The object of the author is to prove that the cachexia, or 
rot, is a verminous affection, which produces the gastric 
asthenia, the hydroaemia, and the anaemia of different 
authors. 
Treatment. —This necessarily consists, firstly, in destroying 
the fluke ; and secondly, in strengthening the system. 
The medicament the author employs to effect the first of 
these indications is very simple, easily obtained, and cheap : 
it is chimney soot. 
In directing the attention of the public to this remedy, he 
states that veterinary surgeons are aware it contains a certain 
amount of pyroligneous oil, which possesses undoubted 
anthelmintic properties. The dose is from one to three 
table-spoonfuls a day, given in the food. 
To fortify the constitution, the seed of the lupinus is ad¬ 
vocated by him. M. Rodet says the seed of the lupin is a pre¬ 
servative against this malady; and M. A. Gasparin recom¬ 
mends bread made of half of the meal of the lupin and half 
ordinary meal, as a prophylactic. According to M. Raynaud, 
this seed is to be given as meal either raw or cooked. When 
raw, it has a bitter taste ; if cooked, it loses this taste, but the 
animals do not dislike this bitter taste. It is to be used as 
the ordinary diet of the patients. After a few days, sheep get 
very fond of the plant; but it does not suit the monogastrics, 
particularly the pig; and although this animal has the faculty 
of vomiting, it nevertheless causes severe indigestion when 
long fed on it, which generally terminates in death. An ad¬ 
dition of a little common salt is very advantageous to this 
treatment. The diet should be nutritious. From twentv to 
thirty days will generally suffice to effect a cure. 
Etiology .—The cachexia, or rot, being according to the 
views of the author a verminous disease, he agrees with the 
opinion of the ancients, who believed that the flukes found 
in the liver are either taken in with the water or the provender. 
The author limits his investigations on this subject to two 
points: 1st, those circumstances which favour the Entrance 
of the flukes into the system; 2dly, the predisposition which 
favours the development of these entozoa. Among the first 
are the pasturing in the marshy and low damp meadows, on 
the borders of stagnant water or even rivers ; also animals 
being turned out when the heavy dews are on the ground at 
the rising of the sun, or during fogs, and those who are 
pastured in the forest. 
Inundations in winter do not cause the disease ; while those 
which occur in the summer are a frequent cause of it. The 
observation has long since been made, that the lowland 
