TRANSLATIONS FROM CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 159 
In the beginning of September the author was called to 
see a young cow, which had been bought about a week 
before by the owner, and which was affected with herpes. 
It was very much reduced in condition, was constantly rub¬ 
bing itself, had lost its appetite, &c. 
Although she had been in the stable only a few days, the 
disease had been communicated to two other cows, and the 
woman who had milked her had two spots on her forehead, 
the size of a centime, which had suddenly appeared the same 
morning, and after a restless night there was clearly deve¬ 
loped herpes. The same treatment was adopted as in the 
former cases, and with the same result. 
On the loth of October a distiller introduced a young bull 
into his stables which was affected with this disease. Ten 
days after, it had infected fourteen cows; but as the disease 
had spread in the regular order from 6ne to the other next 
it, it was supposed that the herdsman had conveyed it to the 
different animals by means of the currycomb. The same 
thing happened at another distillery, where the animals were 
affected in a similar wav, and within the three months more 
than a hundred animals were attacked with this disease, 
which, although not mortal, proves highly detrimental to fat¬ 
tening stock. 
In all cases two or three dressings with the above-named 
compound have sufficed to effect a cure. 
N 
ON CROTON. 
By M. Gille, Professor of Pharmacy at the Veterinary School, Brussels. 
By a ministerial order of the 17th of August, 1857, it is 
directed that all veterinary surgeons, who have pharmacies, 
shall keep the seed of the croton tiglium instead of the oil. 
The advantages resulting from this is, that the seeds are not 
liable, like the oil, to lose their properties by keeping, and 
they offer less facility to adulteration. As the use of this 
drug has been very limited in Belgium, M. Gille enters not 
upon its properties, uses, &c. 
ON CONGESTION. 
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By M. S. Verheyen, Veterinary Inspector to the Army. 
The author informs us that his views of the philosophy 
of congestion are exclusively founded on observations made 
on animals, and that he has no desire to generalise it, or to 
