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EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
INTESTINAL FISTULA FOLLOWING EXOMPHALUS. 
By M. Pardon. 
An eight-month mule was treated for an umbilical hernia, 
with a friction of ointment of bichromate of potassa. On 
three different occasions, with intervals of four months be¬ 
tween, the applications were renewed, the hernia having 
undergone no change. After the last application a large ab¬ 
scess appeared, and ulcerated in four places, through which 
the contents of the intestines and the pus escaped together. 
Under the cautery, both actual and potential, applied over 
the walls of the phlegmon, the discharge from the fistula 
ceased, the hernia disappeared, and the animal recovered 
after a treatment of forty days. 
This case tends to show that intestinal fistulas of this 
nature are not always quite so serious as they may have ap¬ 
peared to be .—Revue Veter. 
PROPHYLAXY OF RABIES. 
By Professor Piana. 
The author proposes castration of all males as one of the 
best means of prophylaxy of rabies. It is not proposed be¬ 
cause castration can be supposed to impart immunity against 
the rabic virus, but because of the effect which the operation 
would produce upon the habits of the animal—the castrated 
dog becoming more sedate and tractable, less desirous to leave 
his home after the female, and so becoming better tempered 
and more domesticated .—II Moderno Zooiatro. 
GLANDERS IN A CAT. 
By M. Lissigin. 
The author concludes from his researches : 
ist. That the cat, without reference to sex or age, is very 
susceptible to the infection of glanders. 
2d. The period of incubation continues about three days. 
At first the temperature rises to 40° and then falls somewhat, 
and on the third day there appears at the point of inoculation 
