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with the careful application of antiseptic diessing. The au¬ 
thor reports two cases where the dropsical condition of the 
synovia was relieved by free incisions of the sacs, cleaning of 
the serous membrane with the curette and the use of care¬ 
fully applied antiseptic dressing. In one case an animal very 
lame and deformed for several months by enormous wind- 
galls of the off hind leg, was entirely relieved by this form of 
treatment in a comparatively short time ; and another suffer¬ 
ing with a congenital synovial dropsy of the anterior exten¬ 
sor of the phalanges was allowed to resume work in a few 
days. The conclusions of the author are that tendinous 
synovial sacs can be opened with impunity, their cavities 
scraped thoroughly with the curette and complete occlusion 
obtained, and be perfectly compatible with a certain regular¬ 
ity of action, allowing the perfect use of animals, providing | 
proper antiseptic measures are taken.— Ibid. 
GERMAN REVIEW. 
By W. V. Bieser, D.V.S. 
CLINICAL EXPERIENCES IN THE CURE OF CANCER WITH 
CANCER SERUM (ERYSIPELAS SERUM). 
Physicians at the present day, as well as those one thou¬ 
sand years ago, place cancer at the head of the list of incura¬ 
ble diseases. Men like Billroth and Gusserou admit their 
inability to cope with this disease. But, thanks to the inde¬ 
fatigable efforts of Emmerich and Scholl, the period for the 
successful treatment of cancer seems to have arrived. 
On the basis of observations made by Busch, Bruns, etc., 
it seems that intercurrent attacks of erysipelas cause a re¬ 
markably swift disappearance of the pathological deposits of 
cancer and sarcoma in these diseases. Fehleisen and Neis- 
ser injected in hopeless cancer cases pure cultures of cocci 
of erysipelas. Although they succeeded in their object these 
cultures are, nevertheless, too dangerous for general use, in¬ 
asmuch as one case died as a result of the injection. The 
authors, therefore, introduced a serum containing all the* 
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