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found a third inhabitant. Fearing - to give the cow any more 
ether, and having so much more room, I delivered her of the 
third calf, which was almost as large as his two twin brothers ; 
they weighed respectively 51, 48, 41 lbs., total, 140 lbs. 
Had I been called in the early stage of parturition, there 
is no doubt in my mind but I could perform the task and 
make a live delivery. Though I have been in practice over 
forty years this is the first case of triplets I ever witnessed. 
I have also found in difficult parturition the safest way at de¬ 
livery is to etherize your patient, when a vast more easy 
manipulation is accomplished. This cow has made a good 
recovery. 
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FRENCH REVIEW. 
THE MICROBE OF DISTEMPER OF DOGS. 
By Dr. Bruno Galli-Valerio. 
After a careful, but brief consideration of what has been 
written on this interesting subject, and a claim to priority 
on the discovery of the microbe in the central nervous svs- 
tem, the author comes to the conclusion that, first, in the 
young animals affected, one always finds in the lungs and the 
central nervous system an ovoid bacillus whose dimensions 
vary between 1.25 and 2.5/4 in length upon 0.31/4 in width; 
second, this microbe gives characteristic cultures upon gelatine 
at 18° to 20°, and upon gelosis at 38° to 40° ; first, the inocula¬ 
tion of these cultures in veins, under the skin, and in the lungs 
of old dogs, has not given rise to the symptoms of the disease 
in young animals; fourth, the inoculation of a culture with 
brain substance under the skin of a five or six-months-old dog, 
has produced the disease of the young and—important fact— 
with the characteristic pulmonary and cerebro-spinal symp¬ 
toms.— Jour, of Zootech. 
