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EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
As a nervous extitant, digitalis and spiritus dilutis with 
caffein, camphor or eserine hypodermically. The bladder 
should be emptied every eight hours by means of the catheter. 
— W. f Th. R. u Vzcht. 32, '<33. 
ECZEMA IN THE HORSE. 
A nine-year-old saddle stallion suffered from the middle of 
June to the end of July from a cutaneous eruption, A careless 
person might have looked upon the same as the usual heat rash, 
but when closely examined it presented unmistakabie characters 
of differentiation. 
At the beginning we noted spots of incrustation upon the 
mane and hips; these resisted all treatment, increasing in 
extent so rapidly, that in fourteen days the whole mane was a 
mass of confluent crusts, under which the cuticle was wet, and 
bled freely. About this time there appeared over the surface of 
the body swellings the size of peas; these passed in regular 
stages to scab and depillated areas with a destruction of the 
skin pigment. Upon the nose, lips and in the region of the 
eyes, malignant prominences could be observed, with a few 
knotty formations at the base of the tail. 
Prepuce swollen but not painful; absence of pruritis in the 
same and also in the mane, but upon manipulation the sensitive 
nature of the malady was made manifest. Glands of the laryn¬ 
geal and inguinal regions enlarged. Gums of the incisor teeth 
swollen. Lips and gums irregularly punctated by postules and 
errosions. No salivation and no disturbance of a constitutional 
nature was present. 
Treatment .—After twice bathing in creolin and lysol solu¬ 
tions, the secreting areas were rubbed with a zinc salve contain¬ 
ing iodoform and tannin. Healing took place, after which the 
swollen glands subsided. This stallion experienced the same 
or a similar affection the year previous; the treatment was the 
same. The universal spreading over the body, and its benign 
character, distinguishes it as an unusual disease of the cutis. 
The aetiology remains hypothetical .—Zeitscher f Vet. K., 6, '93. 
