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EXTRACTS FROM EXCHANGES. 
EXTRACTS FROM EXCHANGES. 
ENGLISH REVIEW. 
Tuberculosis in Horses. —In the Veterinary Journal Mr. 
H. Ferguson records a case of this affection which is essentially 
interesting on account of the generalization of the disease, 
tuberculous deposits being found extensively spread at the post¬ 
mortem. The lungs were much increased in volume but not 
collapsed. Through their structure were areas of caseation, 
granulation and fibrous thickening. The bronchial glands 
were caseous. The diaphragm was studded over with tumors, 
of various sizes, all caseous in their centres. The liver was 
riddled throughout with masses of granulations and caseous 
nodules. The spleen was normal. The kidneys contained no 
tubercles. The lymphatic glands of the neck and maxillary 
space were enlarged and ulcerated. 
Parotid Duct Fistula. —In answer to an inquiry made by 
a collaborator of the Veterinary Record upon the treatment of 
this lesion, several cases are recorded in our contemporary where 
various suggestions are made, viz.: the joining of the wound across 
the orifice and the tying of a silk thread around it, the parts 
being kept clean and antiseptic with a lotion of bichlor. of mer¬ 
cury ; the application of blister followed by cauterization with 
solution of nitrate of silver; collodion, pitch plaster, and oblit¬ 
eration of the gland by injections of tincture of iodine; the 
free division of the tissues involved, cutting of the walls of the 
fistula and then closely adapted suture of the wound with the 
strictest antiseptic precautions ; a case is also recorded of beauti¬ 
ful healing in two or three days by tying the animal rather 
short in his stall, giving him nothing to eat but thin gruel, and 
putting a flax seed meal poultice over the wound. 
Extensive Abdominal Wound in a Filly. —As an evi¬ 
dence of the impunity that, contrary to old ideas, the wounds of 
the abdomen present in our days of antisepsy, the Veterinary Rec¬ 
ord publishes a case of a three-year-old filly which had received a 
large wound through the abdomen, extending backwards and 
downwards and, commencing at the upper part of the lower third 
of the eighth rib,—leaving a large triangular flap of the skin 
hanging with a big piece of the external oblique of the abdomen, 
and complicated by the protrusion of a square foot of the mesen¬ 
tery, three ribs torn from their cartilages, and the colon protrud- 
