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EXTRACTS FROM FRENCH JOURNALS. 
TREATMENT OF THE TAPEWORM IN THE DOG. 
By Mr. Argoud. 
For the author the following mixture constitutes an excel¬ 
lent preparation to relieve dogs from tapeworms: 
The treatment is as follows: On the evening preceding it, 
a very light meal; the next morning a drench of 30 grammes 
of sulphate of soda in 100 grammes of water, to be followed 
four hours after with a mixture of the extract of malefern, 5 
grammes ; sulphuric ether, 10 grammes ; simple syrup, 40 
grammes. This to be given in two doses, half an hour apart if 
the patient is weak. Three or four hours after a second laxative 
of sulphate of soda is given. 
The worm is expelled two or three hours after.— Rec. de 
Med. Vet. 
OFFICIAL REGULATIONS IN THE USE OF MALLEINE. 
By Mr. Laquerriere. 
At one of the meetings of the Societe Centrale in Paris, 
Mr. Laquerriere read a jetter from a sanitary veterinary inspec¬ 
tor at Geneva, stating that the Suiss Department of Agriculture 
had appointed a commission to draw an official regulation re¬ 
lating to the use of malleine as a diagnostic agent for glanders. 
The following were recommended and adopted by the Fed¬ 
eral Government: 
Every horse, donkey and mule belonging to a stable or to a 
herd of equine, among which one case of glanders should 
appear, shall be submitted to the test of malleine. 
All suspected animals will be also treated in the same way. 
All animals will be appraised previous to the injection. 
Every animal destroyed after the injection and found glander¬ 
ous shall be paid as indemnity the quarter of its appraised value. 
If it proves to be free from glanders by the post-mortem, the 
owner shall receive the entire appraised value. 
Mr. Laquerriere recommends the action of the Swiss gov¬ 
ernment to the attention of the French authorities, and asks 
that similar legislation shall be issued as a means of reducing 
