642 
EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN PERIODICALS. 
in the use oi thorough antiseptic dressings, with the applications 
of Van Swieten’s solutions, washings, disinfections with bi¬ 
chloride of mercury, and external dressings of iodoform and 
gauze. M. Ribauld has, according to circumstances, used 
solutions of corrosive sublimate and nitrate of silver both in 
powdei and in pencil form, applied upon or inside of the 
wound ; blistering embrocations, and in some cases, plain an¬ 
tiseptic dressings. 
In the first case, which was one of traumatic arthritis of 
the knee, he obtained a recovery (?) in forty-two days—the ani¬ 
mal remaining permanently lame. 
In the second case, which was arthritis of the hock, the 
result was complete recovery in seventy days. 
In a third case of similar injury, recovery followed in forty- 
one days without subsequent lameness. 
A fistula of the left temporo-maxillary joint was cured in 
thirty days. 
An opening of the left anterior great sesamoid sheath re¬ 
covered radically in forty-one days. 
His last case was of a similar injury, and recovery occurred 
in forty-nine days .—{Ibidem.) 
EXTRACTS FROM ITALIAN PAPERS. 
SOME CENTRAL NERVOUS LESIONS OF GLANDEROUS ORIGIN. 
By M. N. Bosohetti. 
The author has made autopsies of cases in which he found 
encephalic lesions which he considered due to the presence 
of glanders, though it is generally admitted that such a re¬ 
lationship is of very rare occurrence, and has not thus far 
been recorded. 
In a first case, the animal had during life exhibited doubt¬ 
ful symptoms of a glanderous character, the discharge, the 
cough, the collections of the left sinuses and other signs ob¬ 
tained by auscultations and percussions, making it one of a 
\ eiy suspicious character. Yet the inoculation of dogs and 
guinea-pigs had proved negative. After the slaughter of the 
