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EXTRACTS FROM EXCHANGES. 
similar to that on a young duck. In from six to eight weeks 
the calf was practically normally covered with hair again, and 
assumed its original light brown color.— Berl. Thierarzt. Woch. 
DIABETES MELLITUS. 
A five-year old Danish hound, comparatively well nour¬ 
ished, had in different areas weeping eruptions. The patient, 
in spite of a good appetite, was very languid and emaciated. 
Examination of the urine revealed 2 per cent, of glucose. In 
spite of careful dietetic regimen, the dog died. The muscles 
were flabby and atrophied; the kidneys were enlarged and 
hypersemic; otherwise, no pathological changes.— Ibid. 
PURULENT INFLAMMATION OF THE URACHUS. 
A two-months-old calf showed in the neighborhood of the 
navel a swelling 15 cm. long and 10 cm. wide. Same was 
hard, fluctuating, and slightly painful. Urination was normal. 
The swelling was opened widely and half a litre of foul¬ 
smelling pus emptied itself. The abscess walls were hard 
and thickened. In the depth of the abcess cavity, the urachus 
showed itself as an opening at least one inch wide. The canal 
was enlarged and actively inflamed. By means of a sound 
the bladder could be entered. In five days cure resulted from 
irrigation of the canal and bladder with a 2 per cent, potassium 
permanganate solution.— Ibid. 
PARENCHYMATOUS NEPHRITIS. 
In a batch of six horses, three sickened in the course of 
eight days with symptoms resembling azoturia. The urine, 
however, was of a light straw color instead of being red or 
brown. As afterwards became known, the groom had secretly 
given the horses brewery grain, rich oats and corn. 
All three d.ed. Autopsy revealed severe parenchymatous 
nephritis dependent on toxic basis.— Ibid. 
