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bottom of the orbital cavity is absorbed by the phenicated 
cotton. Thanks to this treatment, Mr. Vigezzi claims that after 
fifteen days all inflammation has subsided and the permanent 
eye can be put in position. 
Diabetes Forrowing Chronic Hyerocephaey in Cows 
Mr. A. Girotte.~\ In the same journal, II Naovo Ercolani , 
the author writes that in the beginning of the fall and as soon 
as a regime of dry feeding was commenced, a cow suddenly pre¬ 
sented signs of an insatiable thirst, drinking 120 to 150 quarts 
of water a day. As a consequence of this enormous absorption, 
there was abundant polyuria, about 100 quarts of urine being 
expelled in the twenty-four hours. Otherwise she presented all 
signs of health and had a good appetite. The analysis of the urine 
showed a proportion of sugar of 7 grains per 1000. The animal 
was killed and at the post-mortem showed a well marked ventri¬ 
cular hydrocephaly. To this lesion the author attributes the 
presence of sugar in the urine and adds that if the diagnosis had 
be nade ^durin^ life, recovery might have been obtained by 
repeated injections of muriate of pilocarpine, which would have 
produced the absorption of the ventricular exudate. 
Upon the Way to Extract Carves in Breech Presen¬ 
tation [By M. G. Fabretti ].—This presentation is the one 
which presents most difficulties for the accoucheur and the less 
security for the life of the mother and her product. The author 
has almost always succeeded in bringing the calf alive, and to 
have the mother free from trouble by her delivery. He ignores 
entirely all recommended processes, hooks, ropes, etc., as well as 
the extension of the hocks backwards. On the contrary, he 
pushes the hind legs as far under the abdomen as he can, and, 
taking hold of the haunches with both hands, he moves them 
sideways,up and down, and taking advantage of the efforts of the 
mother, he finally succeeds in pulling the calf backwards and 
out of the vagino-vulvar canal.—(// Nuovo Ercolani.) 
Farm Animars in It ary. —From the Giornale Zootecnica 
and Caseificio the following figures are taken, given by the 
Secretary of Agriculture : Bovine, 5,000,000 ; horses, 920,000 ; 
donkeys, 1,000,000; mules, 300,000; sheep, 6,900,000 ; goats, 
1,800,000; swine, 1,800,000. Their value is estimated at 191,- 
200,000 francs, about $38,240,000. 
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