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alcohol lamp to sterilize it. It is then cooled. The site of in¬ 
jection preferred is the side of the neck. This must be care¬ 
fully clipped and disinfected with a 4 per cent, solution of car¬ 
bolic acid, care being taken, as in all injections, to have the 
syringe and needle perfectly sterilized. The amount of anti- 
toxine to be injected is three grammes of dry serum, each bottle 
containing this amount. After the injection the animal should 
be watched for twenty-four hours, and if the patient is steadily 
improving it may not be necessary to inject any more serum, 
otherwise the treatment should be resumed. It is very impor¬ 
tant to begin the injections as early in the disease as possible, 
the success of the treatment depending almost entirely upon 
that condition. If there is any apparent wound this should be 
treated with the following solution : Iodine, 1 part; potassium 
iodide, 2 parts; distilled water, 100 parts. This should be 
used repeatedly. 
In this month’s number of the American Veterinary 
Review, Dr. M. J. Jones, of Cuba, Ohio, speaks very highly of 
the use of hyposulphite of soda in tetanus, claiming that he 
has cured 23 cases out of 34. 
REPORTS OF CASES. 
LATERAL CURVATURE OF THE SPINE AND VENTRAL HERNIA IN 
A FCETAL CALF. 
By W. J. Martin, V.S., Kankakee, Ill. 
On the morning of Aug. 24, 1896,1 received a message from 
an adjoining town to come and take a calf from a cow. O11 ar¬ 
riving at the place, I found the patient, a large animal of the 
Holstein breed, lying at full length upon her left side, in a semi- 
comatose state of exhaustion from previous labor pains, which 
were now recurring at long intervals of time and very weak at 
that. The nose of the foetus, together with three limbs, pro¬ 
truded from the vulva. 1 
On inquiring into the history of the case, I was informed 
at tie cow had been in labor since the previous morning, and 
that several of the neighboring farmers had vainly tried to re¬ 
move the calf. The vulva being much swollen, it was bathed 
