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creas, which was enormously enlarged and weighed 16 lbs. ; the 
excretory ducts were markedly dilated, so much so that two 
fingers could easily be inserted into Wirsung’s duct ; the ducts 
were filled with clear tenacious masses of mucous resembling 
albumen. The orifices of the two chief ducts of the pancreas 
were patent and dilated. The glandular tissue was greyish- 
yellow and cirrhotic. Upon section of pieces of the glandular 
tissue hardened in alcohol, microscopical examination showed an 
excessive growth of new connective tissue so great as to press 
the glandular substance closely together and in some places 
causing its disappearance. Here and there small non-cirrhotic 
areas appealed. The acini in these 11011-cirrhotic areas were 
markedly dilated and their epithelium showed mucoid degenera¬ 
tion.—( Berl . Thierarzt. IVoch.) 
Tuberculin as a Means of Diagnosis in Suspected 
Tuberculosis in Cattle. —Recognizing the difficulties that 
may confront the practitioner in the diagnosis of suspected 
tuberculosis, and influenced by the observations made in this 
particular sphere by Bang, Hutyra, Halm and Nocard at the 
6th International’Vet. Congress at Berne, the author was led to 
use tuberculin as a means of diagnosis of doubtful cases of tu¬ 
berculosis. The tuberculin was obtained from the Pasteur- 
Chamberland Institute of Budapest. Of fifteen oxen inoc¬ 
ulated, 10 gave the characteristic rise in temperature of from 
i.6° C. to 2.6° C. Their general condition remained about 
the same. At the site of injection, only a slight practically 
painless swelling showed itself. These ten suspects were there¬ 
upon isolated and two of them that had shown a rise in tem¬ 
perature of 2.4° C. were killed. The autopsy showed tubercu¬ 
losis of the bronchial glands. These glands were of the size of 
a child’s fist, and contained miliary tubercles (varying from the 
size of a hemp seed tc that of a lentil) in a state of cheesy de¬ 
generation. One of these cows also showed two small tubercu¬ 
lar nodules of the same character in the lungs. The other 
organs were normal.— (Berl. Thierarzt. Woch.) 
Pellotin, a New Hypnotic. —Uewin extracted many years 
ago the active principle anhalonin from the Anhalonia Lewinii, 
which resembles strychnine in its action upon animals. Hefter 
then extracted pellotin from another species of anhalonia, which 
in the form of the muriate of pellotin causes languor and then 
sleep in adults in doses of 0.04 g ; slowing of the pulse is a con¬ 
comitant effect. Jolly has noticed no other undesirable effects. 
It can be given inwardly as well as subcutaneously, 0.04 g. pel- 
