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give quite as much satisfaction to the veterinary surgeon as it has 
given to the physician in his practice. It also lifts the educated 
veterinarian to a higher plane in the eyes of his patrons, and 
gives to veterinary science the place it so much needs. 
EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
DIARRHCEA IN SUCKING CALVES AND COLTS. 
By O. Sohwarzmaier, Director of Breeding Station. 
{From Centralblatt fur Veterinar Wissenschaften, No. 49, 1886.) 
In his hand-book on “ Veterinary Obstetrics,” Franck des¬ 
cribes this malady as one of the most important and fatal in 
newly-born animals, and surely everybody will agree with him. 
Expedients of every kind and description are recommended 
and applied by practitioners to overcome the fatal results, but 
nowhere do we find a reliable mode of treatment recorded. It is 
clear that the chief aim of both breeder and veterinarian must be 
directed particularly toward extirpating the agitators of the dis¬ 
ease before the birth of the calves or colts, which, according to 
the predominant views of botli the older and newer schools, are 
to be sought for in a stable miasma as yet undetermined. 
To this end, after thoroughly cleansing the stalls of the 
mother animals, an application of a sublimate solution, about 
1-1000, is most trustworthy. For instance, here in the stud I 
have the box stall of the mare (which is plastered and provided 
with drainage) disinfected with the above mentioned remedy 
about two or three days before the act of birth, and thus far 
with the result that diarrhoea appears less frequently, and, with 
the exception of a single case (mentioned below), in a much 
milder degree than formerly. Two or three days after foaling, 
the stalls are again disinfected in the same manner, and the bed¬ 
ding which is soiled by the liquor amnii, blood, etc., is carefully 
removed. 
It is not to be expected that in stables injudiciously construct¬ 
ed, where there is nothing but bowlders, wooden floors, or where 
the animal is even obliged to lie qu the bare ground, disinfection 
