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less. Secondly, I think the commissioners should in any event 
have sufficient means at their disposal to enable them to test 
with tuberculin all cattle the owners of which request such in¬ 
spection.” 
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GERMAN REVIEW. 
By W. V. Bieser, D.V.S., New York City. 
Glycerin as an Obstetric Help. —Since Pelzer’s employ¬ 
ment at Frank’s suggestion of glycerin for this purpose further 
trials have substantiated their results, but with the decided 
drawback of having in some instances caused the death of the 
patient. Its object was to excite uterine contractions. The 
author could not believe that under proper precautions glycerin 
was a deadly remedy ; he believes not so much in its water 
abstracting powers as in its powers to excite contraction of un¬ 
stripped muscle fibre. He injected only 5 ccm. instead of the 
large doses of 80 to 100 ccm. and sees that the glycerin only 
enters the cervical canal below the internal os, and not the uterine 
cavity, the cervix being the originator of the uterine contrac¬ 
tions. Trials made with the remedy in this way gave most 
brilliant results. Two cases are appended. I11 one at the end 
of 40 weeks of pregnancy, in the other at the end of 35 weeks,, 
no signs of uterine contractions had shown themselves. Yet, 
for certain reasons labor had to be induced especially as live 
offspring were the prime object. In both cases 5 ccm. used as 
above described excited potent contractions and led to happy 
terminations. The author recommends glycerin very highly. 
— (Berl. Thierarzt. Woch.) 
Iodine and Iodide of Potash as Antidotes in Purpura 
Hemorrhagica.— The case in question was that of an old 
mare, which at the beginning of the treatment was in an almost 
hopeless state. Tracheotomy had to be performed during the 
illness to prevent suffocation. For several days no food passed 
her lips ; she was so weak as to be hardly able to be moved to a 
more hygienic stable. For three days in succession two intra¬ 
tracheal injections of 10 grains of iodine and 50 grains of iodide 
of potash were given, whereupon quick improvement set in ; the 
mare regained her appetite, the swellings resolved and convales¬ 
cence set in in a short time.— (Berl. Thierarzt. Woch.) 
