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ing symptoms of disease, and principally of an abundant diar¬ 
rhoea. 
The following lesions were found at the post-mortem : 
meat soft and without consistency, with an extremely 
disagreeable putrid smell, and infiltrated with serosity ; in¬ 
testines and stomach normal; spleen hypertrophied, of dark 
color and soft; livyr pale and cedematous ; lungs emphysema¬ 
tous. The condition of gaseous infiltration in the meat and 
the viscera showed itself a few hours after the slaughtering. A 
bacteriological examination of the spleen and of the blood dis¬ 
closed large quantities of small mobile rods twice their width 
in length, and one-half the size of the bacillus of anthrax. 
They were easily colored by the aniline preparation. 
Animals inoculated with the blood or the splenic pulp died 
in from twenty to thirty-six hours, and showed the same 
bacilli, principally in the blood. Cultivated on gelatine or 
potatoes, they form colonies of a grayish color, which do not 
liquefy gelatine, and which killed rabbits, mice and guinea 
pigs. 
Shottelius classifies these bacilli among the septic microbes. 
— Thierarzth. Milth. 
RENAL CALCULI IN A COW. 
By Losoh. 
The author found in the left kidney of a cow ; ist, several 
hundreds of calculi varying in size from that of a small pea 
to that of a large nut, and weighing altogether four hundred 
and eighty-eight grammes, and 2d, a calcareous magma weigh¬ 
ing seven hundred and eighty-eight grammes. These calculi 
were composed of carbonate of lime, phosphate of lime and 
magnesia. No uric or oxalic acid or cystine or cholesterine 
were present.— Thierdzth Milth . 
TREATMENT OF SCABIES IN SHEEP BY CREOLINE. 
By Hohenleitner. 
From experiments made with a three per cent, solution of 
creoline, the following conclusions were formed : 
ist. Baths are very efficacious when sheep have been 
sheared, and also after a thorough washing of the wool. 
