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EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
INFECTIOUS PNEUMONIA OF HORSES. 
By Messrs. Chrantemesse and Delamotte. 
This disease is very common in some parts of Europe, espec¬ 
ially in France, where it prevails under an epizootic form amongst 
young horses of three and five years of age, and is in many cases 
very fatal. Those which recover obtain immunity. The authors 
made punctures in the lungs of two living horses with a sterilized 
trocar, and they found in a culture of the pleural liquid, and from 
the pulmonary fluid, a microbe, having pathogenic properties and 
characters still undescribed. This organism was found in great 
quantities and in the pure state, in sections of the diseased lungs. 
It readily colored by the method of Weighert. It belongs to 
the class of streptococcus, but is distinguished from those already 
known by its great virnlency, and by its property of dissolving 
the serum which it produces in the animals where it grows. A 
drop of culture inoculated under the skin of the ear of a rabbit 
killed him in thirty-six hours, without leaving any trace of sup¬ 
puration. A short time before death the blood escapes from the 
mouth and nose of the sick animal, and at the post-mortem an 
abundant exudation formed of serum which had dissolved the 
hemoglobine was found in the pleura, the pericardium, the peri¬ 
toneum, etc. Half a drop of culture in the trachea of a rabbit 
killed him in twenty-four hours, with a generalized broncho-pneu¬ 
monia .—Journal Soc. iScientif. 
CHLORHYDRIC PILOCARPINE IN ACUTE LAMINITIS. 
By Mr. Frus. 
The author has employed this drug with success in the treat¬ 
ment of this affection, and reports thirteen out of fourteen animals 
laid up, as making a complete recovery in from twenty-four to 
thirty-six hours. The dose, injected in the sub-cutaneous cellular 
tissue, varies between forty and seventy-five centigrams. Only 
two cases required a second injection. A strict diet and stimu¬ 
lating frictions of camphorated alcohol is also indicated .—Deutsche 
zeitschrift fur Thiermedicin. 
