136 EXTRACTS FROM GERMAN PERIODICALS. 
that only six examples of the worm appeared. This was the 
last noted recurrence of the spasms, notwithstanding personal 
observation extending over four months. The sudden in¬ 
hibition of the cramp and spasms, directly after the expulsion 
of the parasite, leaves no doubt, in our judgment, of the 
cause of the symptoms.— B. Thier . Woch. 
ACTINOMYCOSIS IN THE HORSE. 
A foal one and one-half years old had a swelling the size of 
a hen’s egg upon the inferior maxillary, directly below the 
first and second premolars. The formation was pierced with 
four fistulous tracts, and in the solid debris secured therefrom 
the actinomyces were found. 
The treatment consisted of internal doses of pot. iod. 3iv 
to 3 v, and injections of the tincture of iodine into the tracts. 
After the expiration of five weeks symptoms of iodine poison¬ 
ing manifested themselves (dry and brittle hairs, and rough¬ 
ness of same, anorexia and emaciation), but which disap¬ 
peared after dropping/the use of medicinal agents for fourteen 
days. In the interval, however, the swelling was irrigated 
and injected with a three per cent, creolin solution, and the 
“ Berlin fistula tincture,” as follows: 
1^: Cupri sulph. 
Ferri. sulph. 
Ac. tannici ad 3 i, 
Ag. font. 5 iij- 
M. 
Sig.—To be used externally or as an injection. 
The .iodine treatment was recommended and proceeded 
with until the patient had received two pounds of the pot. 
iod. internally, and one pound of the iodine tincture externally. 
Actinomyces were always to be found in the discharges. 
The injection was now changed to a io per cent, solution 
of cupri sulph., which we used four weeks, with the result 
that three fistulas disappeared. 
We have lost sight of the patient, but so much has been 
shown, that the iodine treatment may be considered unsafe 
