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ature often drops to a very low degree, 35-5°, for instance, 
and stays there for 24 to 48 hours, without any objective or 
subjective symptom. 
4th. The reaction is accompanied with very abundant 
polyuria, even with profuse perspiration. The urine is 
almost always thoroughly alkaline. 
5th. The action of the injections of malleine upon the 
local manifestation of glanders has proved very efficacious. 
The author has also attempted to establish the curative 
value of malleine on guinea-pigs, dogs and horses. 
In the first, it is malleine obtained with the aid of the serum 
of bovines which seemed to have the greatest efficacy. In 
dogs, the one obtained by the culture of the bacillus in the 
laboratory, and in horses, that obtained from the serum of 
fat. A recovery has been obtained in the horse, which, so far, 
lasts for a year.— Ibid. 
REPORTS OF CASES. 
“ I hold every man a debtor to his profession ; from the which as men do seek 
to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves by 
way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto.”— Bacon. 
- FOUR CASES OF INGUINAL HERNIA. 
S. R. Howard, V.S. 
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Case I. — Subject, twelve-year old Clyde stallion. Two 
months before the last sickness this stallion had what was 
supposed to be a slight attack of colic, which lasted about 
twenty minutes. I was called, and found him about well, 
munching hay, and pulse and temperature almost normal. 
Groom stated that the stallion had never been sick before, 
but as soon as he had watered him that eve, he appeared to 
get colicky and rolled over several times. We watched him 
about an hour, and then I left him well, as far as I could see. 
Two months later I was again sent for. Found him stand¬ 
ing with head over lower door of his box, breathing very 
quick and vigorously. Pulse about seventy-five or eighty ; 
