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EDITORIAL. 
in the fact that chronic subjects recover, clinically speaking, and 
may survive more than one year and a half in the Russian ex¬ 
periments. 
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In connection with the above clinical demonstration, I find in 
the Revue Generale an article from Mr. Naudin, who has had a 
very large opportunity of observing canine piroplasmosis, which 
was confirmed in the diagnosis by the microscopic examination 
of the blood. Interesting remarks are published from these ob¬ 
servations concerning the symptoms, the diagnosis and the treat¬ 
ment. 
The hyperthermy and the hemoglobinuria, according to the 
writer, are not always present, although when there is jaundice 
the hemoglobinuria is generally always the rule. There is an ab¬ 
normal sensibility of the spleen, on pressure in the left hypo¬ 
chondriac region. In all the cases then, the urine contains al¬ 
bumin. For Navrotsky and Bebensky, albumin, sugar and blood 
are absent from the urine in the first stage of the disease. But 
afterwards albumin is always present. 
As complications, Naudin mentions ulcerative stomatitis and 
gangrene of the tongue. When the diagnosis is uncertain be¬ 
cause of the absence of ticks on the dog or because hemoglo¬ 
binuria being absent, three symptoms which are constant, help to 
make a diagnosis, viz.: the pale color of the mucus, the splenic 
soreness and albuminuria. Microscopic examination of the blood 
confirms it. 
As treatment after having tried with more or less success all 
the classical forms of massive injections of salted water, calomel, 
arsenic, iodo-iodurated solution, etc., calcium chloride was re¬ 
sorted to, in doses of 3 gramms daily, until the albumin has dis¬ 
appeared from the urine. The diuretic action of the chloride 
seemed to give excellent results. 
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Fumes of Iodine in Local Therapeuty. La Presse 
Medicale has lately called the attention of its readers to the im- 
