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front and hind leg in the standing position. He operates as 
follows: After shaving the region, he applies a bandage of 
Esmarck, places the horse in stocks, and puts a twitch on the 
nose. If he operates on the front leg, he has it carried for¬ 
ward; if he operates on the hind leg, he secures it in the 
usual way. Then carefully washing the skin with an anti¬ 
septic lotion, and selecting the place where the incision is to 
be made, he first injects in three different places about two 
grammes of a ten per cent, solution of cocaine. In from 
half a minute to a minute the incision of the skin is made, 
and the nerve dissected, secured and excised. It is prudent 
to drop a little of the solution on the nerve before excision. 
An antiseptic dressing is carefully applied .—Siidschrift voor 
Vcrarts su Veetselt. 
PASSAGE OF MICROBES THROUGH THE SKIN AND THE 
MUCOUS MEMBRANES. 
From experiments made by Van Roth, under the direction 
of Koch, it results that the buccal mucous membrane is im¬ 
penetrable for the bacterias. The simple application of patho¬ 
genic organisms upon the nasal mucous membrane of rabbits 
has, on the contrary, always given rise to local or general in¬ 
fection. 
A mixture of bacterias in olive oil or in lanoline, applied 
by friction on the skin, has caused two deaths from anthrax 
out of three thus treated: the same virus without the 
grease has killed four out of five animals. The same applica¬ 
tion made with a paint brush has given negative results in 
seven cases. The author has demonstrated from his experi¬ 
ments and his microscopic sections that friction, while leav¬ 
ing the epidermis intact, allows nevertheless the introduction 
of the anthrax bacillus. He considers as possible the passage 
of microbes through the skin, even when there is no solution 
of continuity of the tegument.— Bcol. Thierarzt . Woch. 
LONG INCUBATION OF RABIES. _ 
A paper of Odessa reports that a person bitten by a rabid 
wolf and submitted to preventive inoculation by the Pasteur 
method, became affected after nineteen months, and died from 
hydrophobia.— Ibid. 
