722 
J 
GERMAN REVIEW. 
By W. V. Bieser, D.V.S. 
INFLUENCE OF THYROID EXTRACT INJECTIONS UPON NUTRI¬ 
TION AND OBESITY. 
Charrin and Roger by subcutaneous injections of 0.5 to 
0.75 gms. of thyroid extract cause a remarkable degree of 
emaciation in animals. In a patient with general obesity, the 
bodily weight diminished from 133 to 115 kgs. in three months 
through the agency of injection and internal administration 
of thyroid extract. The treatment with thyroid extract (1 gm. 
per diem) was more energetically resorted to. 
Emaciation set in only when the extract was resorted to, 
not during the periods of stoppage of the injection. The 
daily weight diminished 50 to 80 gms. After a certain point 
was reached, it was discovered that further emaciation could 
not be induced. In a second patient similar results were ob¬ 
tained. In a third, weight was uninfluenced by the injections. 
The difference in the results undoubtedly depends upon the 
difference in the kinds of obesity, upon the fact that in certain 
cases the preparation used has not always an unvarying com- 1 
position, and upon the difference in the length of time and ! 
the treatment used.— Thierarzt. Woch. 
. ANTISEPTIC AND COMPLETE IRRIGATION OF THE INTES¬ 
TINAL TRACT. 
Formerly the profession limited irrigation to the colon, 
not going beyond the valve of Baunhi. During the cholera « 
epidemic in France, the small intestine was irrigated by 
means of a laparotomy and the insertion of a canula into the 
gut, through which the irrigation proceeded. Dauviac then j 
tried to wash out the whole intestinal tract in a corpse by 
means of the rectum. He inserted an oesophageal tube into 
the rectum, connected this with an irrigator, and without , 
EXTRACTS FROM EXCHANGES. 
EXTRACTS FROM EXCHANGES. 
