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EXTRACTS FROM GERMAN PAPERS. 
The result was most happy and astonishing; the catarrhal 
symptoms disappeared, patient became lively, and at the termin¬ 
ation of a fortnight the more alarming effects had vanished. 
The medicine was dropped for a time and again, later, given. 
No swelling of the spleen was observed. 
ESERIDINE FOR CATTLE. 
The first article of Eher’s, upon eseridine, was not sufficiently 
exhaustive to introduce this agent in veterinary practice. The 
difficulty which he at that time experienced regarding the solu¬ 
bility of the substance, has now been obliterated, and without 
the use, also, of diluted sulphuric acid solutions. He has found 
that two parts of eseridine and one of ac. tartaricum make a 
clear solution in one hundred parts of water. 
The solution eseridine tartaricum is specially adapted for 
injections, since it induces no lesions at the point of application, 
and operates precisely as other solutions made by Ebers by the 
use of sulphuric acid. 
The firm of Bolinger & Son has prepared, therefore, the E. 
tartaricum instead of the E. purum; the former is in doses of 
4/4 grains, and is doubtless obtainable through the house of 
Eimer & Amend, New York. 
This medicine has been experimentally and practically used 
by Ebers, who recommends it as invaluable in all those diseases 
involving cessation of the pansen movements, i. e., ruminations ; 
he finds no other agent which he may use with more certainty 
of specific action. Felser has affirmed the same opinion in the 
annual report of Munich. 
The application is to be made subcutaneous. After 15 or 
20 minutes the contractions commence, and continue for two 
or three hours, occasioning incidentally the disappearance of 
any tympanites that may be present. About one-third of the 
patients show a diarrhoea one hour after administering; some 
cases exhibit slight involuntary muscular twitchings. In heavy 
oxen 4^4 grains are given; cows receive 3 grains; in a nine- 
months’-old heifer iV^ grains were sufficient. 
