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EXTRACTS FROM GERMAN PERIODICALS. 
branes are pale ; emaciation, more especially at the flank 
proceeds at a rapid rate. The eyes are retracted within the 
orbicular cavity early in the affection. The temperature isj 
never dangerously high, remaining below 104° ; pulse, on the! 
other hand, is accelerated to 60, and the animals are usually 
weak. 
In individual cases the symptoms are more severe 
Huber found a one and a half year old ox lying upon the! 
ground, very weak, with evacuations occurring every hour 
Temperature, 122 0 ; pulse, 38; stomach peristalsis retarded 
intestinal sounds suspended. As the temperature subsided 
the pulse rate increased, until, two days later, the thermome 
ter indicated 105.8°, the pulse, 90 ; the animal was slaughtered 
The weakness is a very prominent symptom, whereby the! 
gait is made uncertain and swaying. Milk secretion reduced. 
Colic symptoms are not to be noted. The patients are con¬ 
tracted in the lumbar region and constantly change the! 
posterior limbs. The course and termination of the affection 
is variable ; in the majority the same subsided in five to ten 
days. In numerous instances medicinal aid was not indicated. 
In other cases, anorexia and diarrhoea extended over a period 
of several weeks, causing great emaciation; in these patients'! 
the usual agents availed nothing. A fatal termination is not 
often recorded. 
Huber handled thirty-six cases, under which were ten 
seriously ill, and four which necessitated slaughtering. Of! 
fifty-nine cases observed, cattle, six died apparently exhausted. 
The therapy consisted of mucilaginous drinks, preparations! 
of opium, astringents and disinfectants such as creoline. In 
addition, dry food, meal water, bread and red-wine. 
The post mortem exposed little of a distinctive nature be¬ 
yond a general anaemia, erosions of the fourth stomach and 
large colon. The mucous membrane of the small intestine 
is neither swollen or reddened ; it contains no abnormal fluid. 
Contents of the psaltery-manifolds dry and hard, as in 
indigestion. The colon membrane was either longitudinally! 
creased or nodular; it was covered with thick mucous,|| 
striped with blood. By irrigating the latter membrane, small 
