warren’s styptic in internal haemorrhage. 701 
of his observation, at St. Louis Hospital, of 300 cases :— 
ei 1. The acarus is never a morbid production of the eruption ; 
does not rise spontaneously; it is the sole and necessary cause 
of itch. 2. The mode of contagion of the sarcoptes is in¬ 
variably the same, when due precaution is taken. 3. The 
vesicle arises under the influence of local irritation, ordinarily 
of a bite ; other eruptions are merely complications of different 
forms of the disease, connected with its duration, &c.”— 
Medical Times . 
PARASITICAL DISEASES OE DOMESTIC EOWLS 
TRANSMISSIBLE TO SUPERIOR ANIMALS. 
MM. Reynal and Lanquetin lately read before the 
Academy of Medicine of Paris a paper on the above-mentioned 
affections. From the authors’ researches, they have been able 
to come to the following conclusions : — 1. That hens are liable 
to a cutaneous affection, depending on a particular kind of 
acarus—the acarus mutans. 2. That this affection resembles 
the itch of man and animals, as regards its symptoms and pro¬ 
gress. 3. That it is transmitted from one fowl to another, by 
cohabitation, through the acarus mutans . 4. That it is also 
transmissible to horses and other domestic animals.— Lancet . 
REGULATIONS RESPECTING CATTLE EPIDEMICS IN ERANCE. 
The French Minister of Agriculture has recently issued an 
order that no proprietor of cattle shall henceforth be indem¬ 
nified for the loss of his animals from epidemic affections, 
unless he produces a certificate signed by the Prefect of the 
commune that they were duly attended by an authorised 
veterinary surgeon. 
DR. WARREN’S STYPTIC IN INTERNAL HAEMORRHAGES. 
Dr. Cook has reported that he had used the styptic re¬ 
commended by Dr. Warren, of New York, in almost every 
variety of haemorrhage, and has hardly known it fail in 
haemoptysis or uterine haemorrhage. It consists of sulphuric 
acid, 5v ; spt. turpentine et alcohol, ij. The turpentine is 
slowly mixed with the acid, and, the alcohol having then been 
added, the mixture is put into a stoppered phial. The dose 
is 40 drops rubbed up with sugar, and given in a teacupful of 
Yvater, a second dose being given one hour after the first, and 
a third two hours after the second.— New York Journal. 
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