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EXTRACTS FROM EXCHANGES. 
croton oil, divided in two doses, two hours apart. (What a 
purge.) 3d day Improvement. Tracheal injections renewed. 
fi!* 1 1 o 1 ) 1 ^ ay — llind le & s 1110ve 5 setons to the 
^j 18 * 6tl h 7 ^j 8tl1 days—Tight exercise. Recovery.— (Gaz 
Med. Vet. Mad.) v 
STATISTICS —From the El Castellano the following- shows 
the number of animals actually in Spain : Horses, 707 ? 72 • 
mules, 767,929; donkeys, 753,914 ; bovines, 2,217,659 ; ovines’ 
1 3 i 359 A °2 ; goats, 2,534,219; swine, 1,927,864; total, 21- 
960,430. ^ ’ 
ITATIAN REVIEW. 
Arecoline in the Gastro-intestinae Affections of 
ORSES and Cattee. II Moderno Zoviatro contains from the 
pen of Dr Umberto de Maia the record of three cases of those 
affections (two m horses, one in a cow), where he minutely de- 
scribes the effects he has observed of the subcutaneous injection 
of 8 centigrammes of arecoline in 3 y 2 and 4 grammes of water 
m those animals, and from his observations concludes • 1st are¬ 
coline is not as powerful sialagogue as pilocarpine ; the salivary 
seeretion is not as strong as with this last alkaloid, it does not 
last as long; 2d, the laxative action is eight times superior to 
that of pilocarpine ; in horses, it is not accompanied with pains • 
3d, the cardiac depression is very weak ; once only was the pulse 
lowered to 28; 4th, arecoline can be used against gastric and 
intestinal indigestion, gastric catarrh and indigestion of the 
omasum ; for this last, whether acute or chronic, the injection 
must be of 6, 8 and 10 centigrammes, repeated daily until re¬ 
covery, or even twice or four times a day in doses of 3 4 or c 
centigrammes. ' 0 ^ 0 
. AcTmoMYCOSiS in a Tizard. —The Ufficio Sanitaria con¬ 
tains a note from Dr. Ferni, who has found in a green lizard 
greyish hepatic nodules, formed of pus and ramified threads’ 
i he character of their cultures are those of the actinomycosis 
bovis, of which they may be considered a variety. These cul¬ 
tures were inoculated to other lizards and gave rise to the same 
lesions. 
Statistics of the Domestic Animaes in Itaey and 
the Vaeue they Represent.- From an approximate estimate 
ot the general directors of Agriculture the number of domestic 
animals m Italy is represented as follows : Horses, 720,000 • 
onkeys, 1,000,000 ; mules, 300,000 ; bovines, 5,000,000 ; ovines' 
