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backwards, being stunned, and for some time remaining 
motionless. She was afterwards assisted to rise and was re¬ 
moved to a box stall, but died four days afterwards. 
At the post-mortem, besides the inflammatory lesions result¬ 
ing from the fall, an extensive fracture of the base of the crani¬ 
um was discovered. On the right side of the occipital crest, and 
a little towards the middle, three lines of fracture were pres¬ 
ent. One, extending backwards, reached the left condyle of 
the occipital bone, and from thence continued sinuously to 
the foramen lacerum of the same side; another, reaching only to 
the right condyle, while the third separated the temporal 
bone from the occipital, and passed to the foramen lacerum 
of the right side. The basilar process and the body of the 
sphenoid, as well as the left styloid process, were also frac¬ 
tured .—Giornale di Vet. Mil. 
c .—GERMAN JOURNALS. 
By Richard Middleton, D.V.S., Philadelphia, Pa. 
LYSOL IN VETERINARY PRACTICE. 
The daily appearance of new antiseptic remedies upon the 
threshold of materia medica has a tendency to inspire a feel¬ 
ing of distrust among the constituency of the profession, 
which may only be dissipated by the publication of authentic 
reports of trials made by well-known members of the frater¬ 
nity. It is highly probable that this feeling is responsible for 
the oblivion to which lysol has been relegated. It was only 
after the reports of Lemke and Director Straube of the hoof 
clinic in Berlin that we brought ourselves to use lysol. Our 
results were so decided that we abandoned the use of creolin 
and ac. carbolicum. Lysol is more intense in its operation, 
more reliable in its application and completely soluble in 
water—not merely saponifiable or mixable, as ac. carbolic or 
creolin. Small globules of the latter substance unite, and only 
when applied externally does it partially gratify expectations ; 
this is equally true when the agent is injected hypodermically, 
the coherence being so powerful as to prevent or consider- 
