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but a pocket had formed in which pus collected. This was 
opened to allow of free drainage. After April 26th the only 
treatment that was followed was to wash the wound every 
morning with a creolin solution, and to stimulate the edges 
with mild cauterization with nitrate of silver. The wound 
closed rapidly under this treatment. 
EXTRACTS FROM GERMAN PERIODICALS. 
By Richard Middleton, D.V.S., Philadelphia, Pa. 
EPILEPSY INDUCED BY ASCARIS MEGALOCEPHALA. 
Since the majority of veterinary writers do not totally dis¬ 
claim the possibility of the round worm as a factor in the 
aetiology o' epileptiform convulsions, we desire to relate an 
instance of reflex spasms induced in our opinion by ascarides. 
The case was a nine-year-old mare of the common breed, be¬ 
longing to a farmer in moderate circumstances. 
According to a detailed statement of the owner, who had 
raised the horse, the animal had become thin within the last 
year; the coat was dry, brittle and without lustre. Re¬ 
peated disturbances of the digestive tract as evidenced by al¬ 
ternate constipation and diarrhoea, and in the last ten months 
intermittent attacks of colic. For four weeks preceding our 
visit, associated with other symptoms, which seemed refer¬ 
able to the weakness of the assimilative tract, appeared 
spasms, which recurred every three or four days. The same 
occurred two hours after feeding, and had increased in inten¬ 
sity and duration lately until now they lasted from three to 
four minutes. 
Status Prcesens .—Animal badly nourished ; hair unkempt, 
coarse and erect; ribs prominent and cuticle tightly covering 
the same ; visible mucous membranes of a pale yellow glance, 
stomatic and lingual membrane dry and hot. Pulse small 
and hard, indicating thirty-eight per minute; heart irregu¬ 
larly intermittent; rectal temperature 100.5° ; nothing note¬ 
worthy detectable in the respiratory tract; appetite at a min¬ 
imum, but increased thirst; peristalsis and defecation re¬ 
tarded. The train of symptoms observed by myself and 
