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EXTRACTS FROM GERMAN JOURNALS. 
APPLICATION OF CREOLINE IN CANINES. 
Guinard treated dogs affected with acarus by energetic 
frictions of a five per cent, creoline salve applied twice daily. 
One patient was cured through the beneficial effects after 
submitting seventeen days. Another dog, whose body the 
disease had entirely usurped, succumbed under symptoms 
referable to creoline poisoning. This animal was rubbed 
alternately upon the anterior and posterior portion of the 
body, and was bathed in a one per cent, creoline solution once 
daily.— Thier. Woch. 
MAY GLANDERS BE TRANSMITTED THROUGH THE SKIN. 
Babes observed a few cases of cutaneous glanders in man 
without being able to discover the slightest wound or abra¬ 
sion ; he concluded therefrom that the bacillus, after coming 
in contact with the skin, is by some cause enabled to enter the 
sebacious follicles. In this locality he supposes the growth 
and extension of the pathogenic organism to take place. This 
it does by insinuating itself between the cells lining the gland 
and entering the lymph vessels. To prove this supposition, 
he composes a salve of pure culture of the malleus bacillas, 
and rubbed the same upon a guinea pig. The animal imme¬ 
diately thereafter evidenced symptoms of glanders. The 
trials by Nocard, which are given below, differ diametrically 
from those of Babes. 
Nocard rubbed salve, composed of living bacilli, upon the 
unabraded skin covering the forehead of three mules, and 
upon the inner side of the thigh in five guinea pigs. Of the 
eight subjects only two guinea pigs died. From this, Nocard 
considers himself justified in stating that infection through 
the unabraded skin is impossible. He attributes the death 
of the pigs to be due to inoculation through some abrasion.— 
Thier. Woch. 
PRESERVATION OF PLEURO-PNEUMONIA BY LOW TEMPER¬ 
ATURES. • 
L. and P. have just completed a number of experiments 
with various products of pleuro-pneumonia, whose object was 
