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tigrninum ; cold applications locally and bran mashes. R. 
recommends the sod. salicylate in cumulative doses, together 
with acidum hydrochloricum in the drinking water. J. 
praises antifebrine in doses of 3 v—vii.— Woch. /. T. u. V. 
RINDERPEST IN EAST AFRICA. 
Schynse writes that rinderpest is epizootic in Uruma, and 
that it has infected all herds, daily sweeping away hundreds. 
All the animals belonging to his society died, except one 
which had been given doses of quinine. Of five patients sub- 
jected to this treatment one died and the remainder improved; 
after a time they received no quinine and three of these 
succumbed. Unfortunately, consideration for the public 
health made it imperative that the experiments should be 
stopped. 
The disease continued two and three days in those animals 
not receiving quinine; foam escaping at the nose and com¬ 
missures of the mouth. On section the gall bladder was 
filled and tense. Schynse advises European veterinarians 
to experiment with quinine in this direction, but he is not 
aware, evidently, that the contagion as met in Africa is totally 
different. It assumes in that country a malarial aspect pe¬ 
culiar to the hygienic influences of this section of the globe. 
In short, being malarial it is amenable to quinine.— Berliner 
Woe hens ch ift. 
MEAT INSPECTION. 
During the period embraced between the years 1886 and 
1889 there have been 24,030 men engaged in meat inspec¬ 
tion in Prussia. 
In the village of Gersdorf thirty persons have fallen sick 
of trichinas. From the subsequent investigation it has been 
revealed that some eight days previous the afflicted had eaten 
smoked sausage bought from a local butcher. The meat used 
in the manufacture of the bologna had been procured from a 
vieat inspector of a neighboring town, and was stamped by him 
as being free of trichinae.—Berliner Wochsch. 
