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ENGLISH REVIEW. 
Action of Chloral in Milk Fever [By M. D. Pug /{\.— 
Taking into consideration the fact that in milk fever the func¬ 
tional disturbances of the digestive organs are more complete 
than in any disease of this apparatus, and that preceding its 
appearance the changes of the uterine discharge take place, and 
that as a consequence of the decomposition of the food in the 
stomach a general intoxication takes place of the whole organ¬ 
ism, the author claims that milk fever is produced by the ab¬ 
sorption of putrefactive compounds, chiefly sulphur; that in the 
presence of these compounds chloral hydrate, expending its in¬ 
fluence chiefly on the alimentary tract, prevents putrefaction by 
decomposing the sulphur compounds, and it is, therefore, indi¬ 
cated ; and that sulphate of magnesia is contra-indicated because 
of its decomposition in the stomach and its emanating a fresh 
source of sulphur .—(Veterinary Record .) 
An Occult Foot Lameness. —In the same journal, Mr. 
W. E. Eitt presents the photograph of a horse’s foot, illustrating 
a beautiful lesion of bony nature on the posterior part of the 
articulation of the second and third phalanx with the navicular 
bone. The animal had been lame for a long time with inter- 
mittence of comparative relief, which allowed him to perform 
much work and to win many races. After his death from ruptured 
aorta, an examination of his foot was made, which showed that 
there had been no fracture, no adherence of the tendon to the 
navicular bone, nor ulceration. But the under surface of that 
bone was much enlarged and roughened by a bony deposit 
which extended to the os pedis and causing a complete anchy¬ 
losis at each extremity of the navicular. The interesting points 
of the case were the insidious early commencement of the 
disease, its development, and the entire absence of any external 
manifestion. When at work he was lame, generally dead lame 
in trotting, but walked and galloped sound. 
A Peculiar Case of Rabies. —Under this heading Mr. 
Wagstaffe reports to the Veterinary Record that he made a post¬ 
mortem examination of a dog which was killed as a suspect of 
rabies, a condition to which he certified from the examination he 
made and the lesions he found. The dog was reported to have 
bitten eielit cows, but four or five of them were considered as 
suspicious and quarantined, and nothing occurred in them. Some 
