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illary bones. Treatment : Amputation of the eye, removal of 
the loose lacerated skin, extraction of the loose pieces of frac¬ 
tured bones, continued antiseptic irrigation (sublimate solution), 
dressing with iodoformed wadding and a contentive bandage. 
Result: Formation of healthy granulations after ten days at 
the bottom of the traumatism ; seventeen days later discharged 
in convalescence, requiring only dusting of phenicated charcoal 
on the surface of the wound .—(Clinica Veterinaria.) 
EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY. 
Serotherapy of Tubercueosis [By A. IV. Tourkine].— 
From experiments made on 46 animals, of which 6 were witnesses, 
the following conclusions of the author are made: 1. The 
horse is well disposed to furnish antituberculous serum. 2. In 
injecting horses with cultures of the bacillus of human tubercu¬ 
losis in increasing virulency, a semm of some antituberculous 
activity is obtained. 3. The curative strength of the serum 
seems to increase with the number of injections of cultures. 4. 
Injection of equine antituberculous serum is not painful, and is 
not accompanied, in guinea-pig or cat, by local reaction. 5. The 
good action of the antituberculous serum is manifested by the 
diminution of the fever of the diseased animals after repeated 
injections. 6. Animals infected artificially, then treated with 
the serum of horse immunized against tuberculosis, obtain a 
longer prolongation of life than the witnesses. 7. In those same 
animals, the evolution of tuberculosis has a stage of arrest, but 
they, nevertheless, die by fatty degeneration of the organs. 8. 
Consequently, the treatment by serum of an immunized horse 
only postpones the time, of death, in tuberculous guinea-pig and 
cat. 9. The author has not succeeded in obtaining, by injections 
of tuberculosis in the blood of dogs, a serum able to arrest the 
development of the disease in infected animals. 10. The action 
of the serum of an immunized horse is the same for tuberculous 
cats as well as for guinea-pigs. 11. The application of serotherapy 
to the treatment of human tuberculosis is premature.— {Rev. 
Sc. Medici) 
Experimental Researches on the Aviary Origin of 
Human Diphtheria [By L. Gallez ~\.—There exists in fowls 
an affection called contagious catarrh, characterized essentially 
by a glairy secretion of the mucous membrane of the mouth, 
nasal cavities and eyes, by a rapid emaciation, paralysis of the 
