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EXTRACTS FROM GERMAN JOURNALS. 
ophthalmia, to wit, that in epizootics of periodic inflammation 
of the eye, the progress of the disease is necessarily abetted 
by the presence of some influence indigenous to the locality 
in which it appears. 
The breed of horse has also its predisposing, or rather its 
supplementary, effect when other conditions are present; for 
instance, the horses of east Prussia are more amenable to the 
affection than those of the western part of the kingdom.— 
Zstchr. f. Vet. K. 
TETANUS IN CATTLE. 
A cow having retained the afterbirth, and which had been 
treated by an empiric, was examined by Hock, and found to 
have tetanus. The same had started as a trismus, and gradu¬ 
ally invested the whole muscular fabric of the anatomy. 
Chloroform inhalations were futile, and the patient was de¬ 
stroyed. 
Klockenberger saw, after a lengthy retention of the mem¬ 
branes, which induced a second metritis, a case of trismus and 
subsequent tetanus. The cow died after an illness of two days. 
District Veterinarian Haertle has seen tetanus appear in three 
days after the application of ligatures to several tumors, some 
of which approached a child’s head in dimensions. Lieble saw 
the disease present in a calf having gangrenous fistula of the 
umbilicus; upon thorough disinfection of the cord the animal 
recovered. 
Steuert also reports tetanus, which had been mistaken for 
puerperal eclampsia, following an easy and normal parturi¬ 
tion. As a result of wounds induced by manipulation in de¬ 
livery, Frank Speyer saw two cases of tetanus in cows.— B. 
T. IV. _ 
ACTINOMYCOSIS OF TONGUE IN EQUHLE. 
Since its discovery in cattle, the actinomyces bovis has 
been assigned as the cause of certain well-defined swellings 
in swine, dog, horse and man. Especially abundant have 
the recorded cases become in the last decade, owing, no 
doubt, to a more perfect and stringent method of meat in¬ 
spection. 
