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This change of treatment is followed by an improvement of 
the symptoms, which lasts for a week, when a second relapse 
takes place. The dose of oxygenated water is carried to two 
hundred grammes, which are given for about a month, when 
it is gradually reduced and stopped. The injections have 
given rise to numerous abscesses, which were treated with 
local applications of the same water. 1 he author concludes 
by recommending the use of large doses at once, 200 grammes, 
and even more if the case seems to indicate it .—Ibid. 
ITALIAN REVIEW. 
TUBERCULOSIS OF THE UDDER. 
By Dr. Fiorentini. 
After experiments made in 1891 the author has concluded 
Tat the milk of tuberculous cows could contain the bacillus 
}f Koch and be infectious. Continuing his observations and 
examining the udders of tuberculous cows killed at the abat¬ 
toirs of Milan, he observed that the bacillus of Koch was 
missing in cows with more or less generalized tuberculosis, 
Dut whose udders were healthy. And, on the contrary, he 
ound that in cows which had diffused, or miliary tuberculo¬ 
us, the mammary glands contained the bacillus. 
This miliary form of tuberculosis is that which is most 
commonly met with in the udder, but it is the most difficult 
o diagnosticate while the animal is living, and, again, it is 
lever primitive, but secondary to the tuberculosis of the 
)ther organs. At. the time of his first experiments, Dr. F. 
lad found in the milk, offered for consumption, a bacillus 
vhose cultures inoculated to fowls give rise to violent diar- 
hcea. This bacillus was the B. coli commune, which became 
lathogenous for rabbit and guinea-pig and which is imported 
rom the stall into the milk at the time of milking. From 
hese the author advises the application of severe hygienic 
measures (inspection of infected stables) to be executed by 
he sanitary service of countries where tuberculosis exists.— 
illevatore. 
