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tin and blood serum, without any liquefaction of the medium. 
Cultures in dextrose, mannite, maltose, saccharose, lactose and 
glucose broth have an alkaline reaction, and there is no forma¬ 
tion of gas. In litmus milk there is some bluing during the first 
three days of incubation; color is gradually discharged from be¬ 
low upwards. There is not any formation of indol in pepton so¬ 
lution. Cultures on potato and in milk and nutrient broth have 
a disagreeable odor. The organism was pathogenic for healthy 
puppies on intratracheal inoculation, or when a broth culture 
was applied directly to the nostrils. Negative results were ob¬ 
served, with subcutaneous and intravenous inoculation. Alto¬ 
gether, B. bronchicanis was isolated from 97 dogs after death. 
In 68 cases it was isolated in pure culture from either the respira¬ 
tory tract or from the blood; out of 18 successful cultures from 
the blood the bacillus was the only organism present in 13 of the 
cases.— ( The Med. Officer and Veter. News.) 
FRENCH REVIEW. 
By Prof. A. Liautard, M.D., V.M. 
Varicose Phlebitis of the Mammary Vein in a Cow, 
with Spontaneous Hemorrhage Similar to Same Disease 
in Man [MM. Prof. G. Petit, Adjunct B. Germain and Mr. 
Chapelier]. —Norman cow, in good condition, excellent milker, 
without pathological history, aged 12 years, is in the eighth 
month of pregnancy. One day she is suddenly taken with very 
abundant mammary hemorrhage, which gradually subsides, and 
is arrested as well as possible with a pad and surcingle by the 
owner. The hemorrhage is coming from the right anterior mam¬ 
mary vein, near its entrance in the abdomen. There the skin is 
very thin, and it is difficult to secure enough of it to close the 
wound with the ordinary pin suture of ordinary bleeding. On a 
level with the wound and back of it, on the course of the vein, 
which is of ordinary size; not exaggerated as commonly observed 
in old milkers, there are two' little swellings, hairless, where the 
skin is also thinned out and almost ready to burst. The next day 
another violent hemorrhage takes place. Perchloride pads are 
necessary to control it. Eleven days after, another hemorrhage. 
It has occurred in the night, and when discovered the cow is lit¬ 
erally covered with blood. The general condition of the animal 
has suffered much from these repeated losses of blood and she 
