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overcame the animal; conjunctiva reddened and swollen; lcj 
of appetite; increased thirst; indifferent to surrounding 
The cramp of the various muscles had subsided, and the tr. 
mus in particular had disappeared. The tongue was perfect 
mobile, and moved with the greatest freedom. Power of \ 
lition over the whole body seemed to be reinstated. 
From the eleventh to the fifteenth day the amount 
pyrexia remained over io4 q and sank to 102° ; pulse declint 
from 60 to 48. On the fourteenth bay the debility was of 
widespread a nature and intensity, as to indicate the admin 
tration of excitants. Recovery is recorded from the si 
teenth day on. On the twentieth day patient free of feve 
and on the thirty-fourth, the same was discharged as cure 
In the other three cases the cause of the disease could 1 
traced to wounds upon the animal. In these also could dii 
inut.ion and ultimate disappearance of the tetanus be record( 
immediately upon the rise of temperature, i.e. contraction 
influenza. 
In every case the horse had suffered from tetanus mo 
than a week—nine to seventeen days—before experiencir 
influenza. 
In experiments, at a later period, undertaken to confir 
the above, in which cultures of influenza were used, these mo 
interesting results could not be confirmed. In not one i[ 
stance did Schindelka succeed in annihilating tetanus throue 
injection of pure influenza cultures. It is, nevertheless, will 
more than passing notice that we read the account of this oj 
curence at the Vienna university. — CEsterreich. Ztschr. /. Wi 
RETRO-PHARYNGEAL HEMORRHAGE IN A COW. 
A cow that was the second time pregnant, exhibited turn 
faction of the left sub-aural region. 
The animal was in mediumgood flesh, was well nourished 
and gave much milk. On the inferior border of the paroti 
gland, and displacing the larynx, a well demarcated swelling 
which approached in size a child’s head. A few centimete; 
posterior to the angle of the left inferior maxillary, a flu 
