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EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
SURPRISING FECUNDITY IN A COW. 
By Me. E. Claverie. 
This is the case of a cow which, at her first pregnancy gave 
birth, after an easy parturition, to one male and three female 
calves. The process of delivery occupied about an hour and a 
half. The little ones were well developed and were all doing 
well.— Revue, Veter inaire. 
THE USE OF ANTIPYRINE IN VETERINARY MEDICINE. 
By M. Kauffmann. 
In the Journal of Zootechnie the author, after giving the 
entire history of antipyrine and its physiological effects in 
healthy animals, concludes by speaking of its therapeutical indi¬ 
cations. He says: 1st, in therapeutics only the effects of antipy¬ 
rine can be utilized, as the local effects are nearly null; and, 2nd, 
that among the general effects the most remarkable, and the one 
that must unite the most common and important applications, is 
its hypodermic action. From all the investigations he has made, 
the author, confirming those of many others, concludes, 1st, that 
in hypodermic injections, antipyrine lowers the temperature more 
rapidly and better than by internal use; 2nd, that by this 
mode smaller doses give better results than if administered 
through the stomach; 3d, that for hypodermic injections the 
best solution is that of one gramme of antipyrine to fifty centi¬ 
grammes of water, the solution being made with heat; 4th, that 
the hypodermic use is never followed by any general or local 
trouble; 5th, that in very high pyrexia larger doses must be ad¬ 
ministered every hour; 6th, that it can always be substituted 
with advantage for the use of quinine. 
Kauffmann recommends the following doses for subcutaneous 
injections : In a dog of medium size, one gramme, and in a horse 
of medium size, ten grammes. This dose may be repeated, how¬ 
ever, until the temperature is diminished .—Journal de Zootechnie . 
GLANDERS IN THE GUINEA PIG. 
By MM. Cadeao and Malkt. 
On account of the great facility with which this little animal 
