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EXTRACTS FROM GREMAN JOURNALS. 
EXTRACTS FROM GERMAN JOURNALS. 
By Richard Middleton, D.V S., Philadelphia, Pa. 
INFECTIOUS GASTRO-INTESTINAL CATARRH. 
A-has seen this disease—generally of a benign charac¬ 
ter—appear in sporadic instances, but in 1891 the affection 
came as a contagious erizooty seizing upon twenty-three 
head in a short time. The course was not essentially differ¬ 
ent from the commoner variety, except in one case where the 
total stock, comprising seven cattle, became seriously sick 
over night, one individual dying within ten hours. 
On another farm the affection assumed so persistent and 
at once so malignant a form as to cause death after an inter¬ 
val of ten years from the time of its primary appearance. A— 
finds no record in contemporary literature of such a virulent 
catarrh; the following comprises the substance of his re¬ 
marks upon the subject: 
On June 1st he examined the remaining six animals of the 
above-mentioned instance; great fever, indisposition, unsteady 
gait and prostration, with noticeable coldness of the whole 
corporeal surface, marked the cases as out of the ordinary. 
Paleness of the visible mucous membranes; pain in the ab¬ 
dominal cavity, with hasmorrhagic diarrhoea indicated a gas¬ 
troenteritis. 
Twice daily they received beer containing eggs and milk 
as a drench, and also the following: 
Opii pulv., 3 i, v, 
Creolin., 3 v, xii, 
Spiritus, 3 iss, x, 
M. 
Sig.—Regulate the dose according to size of animal. 
Recovery followed the administration of this mixture very 
rapidly. 
Upon post-mortem of the single animal which succumbed 
previous to our arrival, the muscles were fresh and of a healthy 
color. The collective organs of the thoracic and abdominal 
cavities, with the exception of the stomach and intestines, 
were healthy. The gastric mucous membrane, especially that 
