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stroyed. In a second cow, which also exhibited tympanitic 
symptoms, the decomposition was retarded by injecting a two 
per cent, solution of acidum boracicum through the incision 
of rumenotomy.— Deutsche Med. Ztg. 1891, No. 77 - 
THERAPEUTIC NOTICES. 
According to the recommendation of Hutyra, Lemke in¬ 
jected subcutaneously five grammes of ext. fld. hydrastis can¬ 
adensis, dissolved in ten grammes of water, in each of three 
horses afflicted with purpura hasmorrhagica. In two patients 
the swellings decreased rapidly and the animals recovered ; 
in the third, however, the reduction in size was only nominal 
and the subject died. The vaso-motor stimulant characteris¬ 
tic of this agent has caused it to be thus used in morbus mac- 
ulosus.— Ztschr. f. Vet. K. 
Schmidt has confirmed the report of Ostertag by several 
trials that eseridine is still more unreliable than eserine.. The 
physiological action, as well as the dose, varies exceedingly. 
There are now sufficient trials recorded to enable a definite 
judgment to be formed of the efficatiousness of eseridine — 
Arch. f. Wiss. n. Prakt. Th. 
ALVUS ABSTRICTA. 
The Clinica Veterinaria No. 5 recommends for alvus abstric- 
ta in cattle the following : 
Ant. et pot. tart., 5 vi, 
pot. nit., §iii, 
gummi gutti, 3 hi, 
M. divid. in partes, xii, 
Sig —One part in a bottle of linseed tea every three hours. 
DR. BILLINGS VINDICATED. 
In the Zeitschrift fur Hygiene, a journal of original research 
published under the supervision of Prof. Koch, Vol. 10, just 
out, is an article by Dr. Theobald Smith, assistant in the Bur 
