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symptoms present nothing alarming at first and the case is con¬ 
sidered and treated as one of simple metritis. The treatment of 
permanganate injections and of salol and naphtol internally did 
not seem to be followed by good results and three days later the 
animal is in serious condition. One of the knees has become 
swollen and the infection is soon manfested by general symptoms. 
All the legs are affected, the large articulations are all disabled, 
pneumonia sets in. In fact, death at short notice is considered 
as unavoidable. It is in the presence of this condition that the 
writer resorted to the intra-venous injections of collargol. A first 
solution, made of 50 centigrams of collargol in 10 cubic centi¬ 
meters of boiled water was injected and followed by superior re¬ 
sults. The animal showing great improvement a few hours after. 
For three days in succession 20 centigrams of collargol were in¬ 
jected and in five days there remained only the pneumonia which 
was relieved readily a few days after .—(La Semaine Veter.) 
Facial Spasm in the Horse [Professor Douville ].—Brown 
gelding, six years old, presented curious troubles of the physiog¬ 
nomy. The lips, eyelids and ears are periodically the seat of 
convulsive movements. First the lips have slight tremblings 
which gradually increase in number and severity. The eyelids 
also. They began on the ciliary angles and soon involve the 
orbicularis. After a few seconds the lids open and close so fre¬ 
quently, rapidly and repeatedly that the globe is almost closed. 
There is true clonic blepharospasm which lasts for a few minutes, 
when gradually all passes off. The contractions of the ear are 
less marked and principally noticed when the access is fully de¬ 
veloped. Pressure over the various regions affected have no 
effect. The accesses are intermittent and last about five minutes. 
If the animal is kept quiet in a dark stall he shows nothing, but if 
the door is suddenly opened or if light is thrown on the box or 
if the horse gets frightened the symptoms appear. The troubles 
occur only in the regions where the branches of the facial nerve 
are distributed. No treatment was prescribed as it was an ani¬ 
mal recently bought and his condition obliged the dealer to take it 
back.— ( Bullet . de la Soc. Cent.) 
Curious Intrathoracic Traumatism in a Cow— [ Mr . 
Bonnigal ].—Cow refuses eating since two days—no rumination 
takes place—the animal moans, is stiff and dull. Temperature 
39.6-10. Percussion on the left side of the chest is painful. Re¬ 
spiration accelerated. A hard reducible swelling appears after 
