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a tumor, quite large, which soon ulcerates and changes to a 
glanderous chancre. 
3d. The virus of the glanders of cats, and its cultures, are 
very virulent for other cats, which it kills rapidly. 
4th. The inoculation of cats with equine virus produces a 
form of disease very characteristic. 
5th. The inoculation of the cat with pathological products 
suspected of being glanders gives good results. The inocu¬ 
lated spot not only becomes the seat of glanderous ulcer¬ 
ation, but metastatic abscesses soon appear all over the 
body, and death takes place between the eleventh and the 
twenty-second day, the animal losing flesh largely meanwhile. 
At the post-mortem the lungs and spleen are found to be full 
of glanderous tubercles, and the septum nasi is covered with 
extensive chancres .—Giornale di Vet . Mil. 
TWO CASES OF CHRONIC HYDROCEPHALIA CURED BY 
PILOCARPINE. 
By M. R. Raia. 
The first case is that of a horse which some weeks previ¬ 
ously had shown symptoms of cerebral congestion, and which 
after a few days’ treatment had returned to his work, but 
when sick again showed all the symptoms of chronic hydro- 
cephalia. He received subcutaneous injections of chlorhy- 
drate of pilocarpine, the first of seventy, the second of eighty, 
and then successively four more of eighty centigrammes each. 
The head was kept covered with a bag filled with ice. After 
the second injection the symptoms seemed to improve, and 
this improvement continued until recovery, which occurred 
after a few days’ treatment. In the second case the animal 
received for the first injection sixty-five centigrammes, a sec¬ 
ond of seventy, and a third of seventy-five. Local treatment 
of the head consisted in ice applications.— Ibid. 
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STERNAL PERIOSTITIS AND CONSECUTIVE PERICARDITIS. 
By M. Laei. 
A ten-year-old mare showed a tumor as large as a man’s 
head in the sternal region between the fore legs. It was pain- 
