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or ten days we prescribed the animals to be treated with a 
salve composed of equal parts of creolin, anglicum and sapo 
viridis. Later, a two and a half per cent, solution of creolin 
came into use as follows : After the animals, including the 
lambs, had been left two to three minutes in the tank, they 
were removed to another vessel, where they were drained, 
and where the ears, lips and nose were dampened with the 
above solution, and the scabs removed by means of a stiff 
brush. After an interim of eight days we visited this farm 
again, and applied the same process of bathing; at this time 
only a few of the head scabs were noticeable. We again ex¬ 
amined these sheep at four or eight weeks respectively, but 
found no trace of the scab.— Ber. Th. Woch. 
ANGINA DIPHTHERITICA IN CATTLE. 
On the first of April, two cows became sick on a certain 
farm of an affection possessing a striking similarity to foot- 
and-mouth disease, and which at that time generated the sus¬ 
picion that this dreaded plague gained a footing. On the 
day following the symptoms were present in a better marked 
degree, and the mouth was continuously opened and closed. 
In the laryngeal region and intermaxillary space, the animals 
manifested pain upon pressure. Raw food remained un¬ 
touched when put before the patients, and they consumed 
small quantities of nutritious fluids only, with pain. The cat¬ 
tle had pyrexia. 
Besides these two animals, four other cows were kept in 
this stable, three of which were removed a greater distance 
from the afflicted ; one, however, a small heifer, which had 
been allowed to stay in the vicinity of the suffering animals, 
became sick the next day. The therapy consisted of inhala¬ 
tions of hay tea, to which a few minims of creolin and oleum 
terebinthina had been added ; application of an epispasticum 
over the laryngeal and parotid region, and of a drink com¬ 
posed of dilute acidum hydrochloricum in wheat water. The 
stalls were disinfected. On the fifth day, respiration more 
difficult, and accompanied by a wheezing, not to say roaring 
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