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EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
TREATMENT OF SEROUS CYSTS. 
By Me. Chobaud. 
These soft tumors may be observed in every region of the 
body, but are most frequently found at the elbow, (caped el¬ 
bow), at the hock, (caped hock), on the anterior face of the’ 
fetlock, of the knee, on the internal face of the cannon, on the 
back, the loins, the withers and the hips. The methods of 
treating them are quite various and numerous, comprising 
douches, friction, massing, puncture, pressure, setons, cauteri¬ 
zation, iodine injections, electro-puncture, etc. Sometimes 
the treatment is successful and at others it proves very unsat¬ 
isfactory. As the successful result of twenty-five cases treated 
by him, the author recommends the following measures, as 
constituting a rational treatment which has the important 
advantage of shortening the period of the detention of the 
animal from his work, twenty days only being required for 
the course. The first indication is to puncture the cyst in the 
most dependent part, to empty it of its contents, and then to 
fill it with oakum moistened with a concentrated alcoholic 
solution of bichloride of mercury, (i part in 25 ). The oakum 
is left in for from twenty-four to forty-eight hours, and then 
pulled away. An acute inflammation in the walls of the cyst 
soon follows, which is itself followed by their adhesion and 
rapid cicatrization.— Repert. Vet. San. Police. 
ACCIDENT FOLLOWING THE CASTRATION OF CRYPTORCHID. 
By Professor Thomasskn. 
A horse affected with double cryptorchidy had been 
operated upon by the method employed by Professor Degive. 
Ten days after the operation and while the general condition 
of the patient seemed quite satisfactory, general symptoms 
were manifested. The patient had a high fever and made 
violent expulsive efforts, which were accompanied by the 
dropping of a few balls of manure. The exploration of the 
rectum showed an incomplete obliteration of the entrance of 
the pelvis, by a largely tympanized portion of the large in- 
