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EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
ENZOOTIC ABORTION IN COWS. 
By Dr. G. Sohneidemuhl. 
While adopting the microbian theory of contagion in 
cases of abortion, the author considers it a serious error to 
admit the presence of a specific infectious agent in a cow shed 
as sufficient in all cases to give rise to abortion, and think 
that contributing causes, such as are liable to debilitate the 
animal and impair her power of resistance to the contagious 
influence, should also be taken into account. For this reason 
he advises a proper attention to preventive measures, such as 
a better regulated hygiene, a liberal and nutritive diet, and 
the interdiction of reproduction between members of the 
same family, or by bulls which have been kept on premises 
where cases of abortion have taken place, as well as with 
cows that have aborted. 
When cases of abortion have taken place in barns, he 
recommends the frequent washing of the vulva, of the va¬ 
gina and around the anus of the patient, together with the 
disinfection of the barn with a solution of phenic acid, with 
per of cent, chloride of mercury, or of creoline, one to one 
thousand. 
He also recommends the treatment of Nocard and of 
Brauer, and in general advises the following measures: the 
complete disinfection of places where cows have aborted ; the 
subcutaneous injections of Brauer, at the flank of pregnant 
cows every two weeks, with from five to ten grammes of a two 
per cent, phenic solution; the exclusion, for breeding pur¬ 
poses, of cows that have aborted, or which have retained the 
foetal envelops too long, or such as may have contracted 
uterine disease; the removal of the manure; cleanliness of 
the gutters of the barns; the removal of the cows from the 
premises until the disinfection is perfectly accomplished ; and 
the isolation of cows which are near calving time.— Thiermed. 
Vort. 
SEPTICAEMIA IN A STEER. 
By Feutzling. 
An eighteen months old steer was killed because of alarm-. 
