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EXTRACTS FROM GERMAN PERIODICALS. 
ichorous discharge at every movement of the articulatic 
By means of a probe, a mass of uncovered bone was met 1 
teen centimeters below the cutis. We communicated o 
opinion as unfavorable to a rapid recovery, but the owner i 
sisted upon something being done, declining to slaughter t 
animal. We therefore thoroughly cleansed the canal—own 
refusing to permit an enlargement of same—ordering a fo 
per cent, creolin solution injected three times a day. Aft 
eight days of this therapy no benefit could be noted, and li 
uor villati was substituted, being applied throughout foi 
teen days with likewise no result. The condition at the tt 
mination of the treatment was precisely as at the beginnin 
with the one exception that the appetite had fallen off. Bi 
ow’s solution and watery dilutions of an iodine tincture we 
each used fourteen days with negative results. 
All reputable measures having failed, we tried to persua< 
our client to permit an incision and scraping of the tract, b 
he steadily maintained that there must be some agent app 
cable to such a wound that would close it. As a last reso 
we determined to use ol. terebinth. Americana as an injectio 
but with little faith in its efficacy. A few days after our la 
conversation, about the middle of December, we visited tl 
case, and introducing a glass syringe as deep as possible 
the canal, emptied its contents, f 3 ijss, therein. After the e 
piration of the fourth day, we again called upon the patiei 
and repeated the dose, after which the cow was uneasy. Tl 
owner received instructions to inject the same quantity foi 
days later. About the tenth of January, being in the neig 
borhood of the village, and curious to know the result of tl 
medicine, the farmer not having written to me since my la 
visit, we approached the house of our client, who met i 
with a beaming countenance, and imparted the course of co 
valescence in great delight. The appetite was now robuj 
and the agility displayed in regaining her feet when dowl 
was evidence that the excruciating pain had vanished wit 
the other symptoms. 
The second case of chronic fistula was in a horse sufferin 
from “poll evil.” This had been running six months; tl 
