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EXTRACTS FROM EXCHANGES. 
A cow which after calving had a slight prolapsus of the 
vagina and of the rectum, received, after reduction of the 
complication, a series of drinks of strong brandy, measuring 
altogether about three quarts (3 litres). 
From that time she acted as crazy ; she was violently 
agitated, striking her abdomen with the hind legs, eyes staring, 
excess of convulsive motions of the fore arms and thighs, 
abundant foaming salivation, mucous membranes injected, 
respiration accelerated, breath with alcoholic odor, heart 
bouncing in the chest, etc. This was followed after several 
hours by a comatose condition, which ultimately ended in 
death, notwithstanding the treatment, which consisted of 
bleeding, frictions, with the internal administration of acetate 
of ammonia, coffee, tincture of nux vomica. With little local 
exceptions the post mortem failed to show any specific lesions 
except the very strong alcoholic odor perceived in all the 
tissues. 
A horse having some colicky symptoms, which seem to 
pass off by moderate exercise, when the owner is advised to 
give him a mixture of absinthe and white wine. About five 
ounces of the absinthe mixed with a pint of wine is then ad¬ 
ministered. Some fifteen minutes after the horse is agitated, 
uneasy, has spasms through the large muscular masses, his 
gait is unsteady and he drops down as paralyzed. When 
down he seems sound asleep; the pulse is small and weak, 
the breathing labored, the eyes injected ; he requires severe 
punishment to make him get up and when in standing posi¬ 
tion his equilibrium is ver}^ unsteady. Treatment, frictions* 
blanketing him warm, acetate of ammonia, coffee, citrate of 
caffeine. Recovery. 
A young terrier pup to be kept very small receives a 
half a teaspoonful of cognac in a small quantity of milk. After 
twelve da}’s of this treatment this little dog, from active, lively 
and good health becomes dull, of stupid appearance, loses 
his appetite, has great thirst. His walk is uncertain, eyes 
drawn in the orbit, eyelids swollen. The alcohol is stopped, 
the little fellow placed under tonic treatment, in six days has 
recuperated and is entirely cured in two weeks. A month 
