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previously subjecting to a thorough cleansing, is sufficient to 
accomplish dispersion. 
Loretin is free of any secondary working; it is yellow in 
color and completely odorless; slightly soluble in water 1.130; 
when strewn upon the surface of a wound it forms a crust, pro¬ 
tecting the same. Besides this it is applicable as a sodium salt 
wherein a watery solution; chemically it is metaioclorthooxy- 
chinolinanasulphric acid and forms with sodium carbonate a 
neutral salt, very soluble in water and useful in a one or two per " 
cent, solution as a cleanser of wounds. 
Loretin dries more rapidly than iodoform. In eczema and 
blood-ear of the dog its exhibition has been of value. Also 
when combined with collodium 2.4% it forms a good application 
— Dentsch. Th. Wochenschrift. 
Acute Lead Poisoning in Cattle. —In November and 
December, 1893, a farmer lost eight cattle within a few days. We 
were called to see the ninth patient which, after having the his¬ 
tory of the others, we promptly placed under heroic treatment. 
This animal exhibited strong salivation amaurosis, attacks of 
delirium aud falling fits. In the other eight cases the slaughtered 
animals all showed hyperaemia of the cerebrum after death. 
The aetiology of the affection remained most obscure until the 
owner accidentally remarked that a considerable quantity of 
white lead had been thrown upon the manure heap, previous to 
its being scattered upon the meadow where the animals fed. The 
flesh of the subjects was consumed without deleterious effects. 
—Lchweiz Archil q Ay, ’pj\ 
Inoculation of Anthrax. —The experiments which up to 
the present time have been prosecuted upon the inoculation of 
the bacillus anthracis, by means of injection in the cornea, have 
been of negative results. * 
Strauss, after cocainizing the optic organ, introduced cultures 
of the bacillus containing spores and blood between the lamellae 
of the cornea. In four out of five cases he observed an anthra- 
coid keratitis, followed in seven to eleven days by a general 
