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discharge was profuse and highly offensive. For about three 
days very little change could be noticed, then abscesses formed 
in the swollen parts, and on opening discharged considerable 
quantities of bloody serum. 
The swellings gradually disappeared and gradual conva¬ 
lescence followed. Tonics were cautiously administered, 
hydrastis added to the injecta. On the fourteenth day she was 
looking well, had a good appetite, and everything looked 
favorable to recovery up to midnight, when the attendant 
left her and went to bed, but on returning to the stall at six 
o’clock on the morning of the fifteenth day found her dead. 
In summing up the treatment from which I have obtained 
the most satisfactory results is f. ex. ergot a few doses at 
first, and it is sometimes necessary to fall back to it again for 
a few doses as the uterine walls may become again relaxed. 
Small doses of aconite frequently repeated during the high 
temperature, and the hyposulphite of sodii. 
Stimulants and tonics must only be administered very 
cautiously, in accordance with the symptoms presented. The 
injecta of water, milk and carbolic acid may be used every 
two or three hours, when there is much discharge, and 
hydrastis added in later stages. 
LICE AFFECTING DOMESTIC ANIMALS. j 
By Herbert Osborn. 
(Continued from page 211). 
Biting Lice of Cattle. (Plate II., Fig. 8). | 
Trichodectes scalaris, Nitzsch. 
This species, which is a very abundant one upon cattle 
and occurs the world over, appears to have been first tech¬ 
nically described by Linnaeus (System Naturae, vii., p. 1017, 
No. 9), under the name of Pediculus bovis , and evidently the 
same species is referred to under the name of Pediculus taun 
{Fauna Suecica, 1946). Noth withstanding these descriptions, 
both of which were under a different genus from that in 
