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vesicular murmur, with dry and moist rales. Cough in all 
patients deep, loose, painful, and accompanied by discharge ; 
all of these animals had been pastured upon the inundated 
tract of the Tapa River. The lungs of a calf which had died 
of the disease were in places emphysematous and reddened, 
with depressions and collapsed portions brown in color. Fil- 
aria forty to sixty millimeters in length were found, mostly 
in the collapsed portions.— QSstterreich Centralblatt. 
Trepanation in Cenurus Cerebralis .—In a heifer which had 
for some time exhibited symptoms of cerebral disarrange¬ 
ment, it was decided to relieve the same by trephining the 
skull. By percussion over the lower portion of the left half 
of the forehead a dullness was found to be present. In this 
region two openings were made and the cyst exposed—from 
which nearly seven ounces of liquid were collected. The 
tedious task of extirpating this membrane was performed 
successfully without injuring the encephalon ; the patient 
afterward ceased to manifest any of the signs due to pressure 
upon the brain. 
The after treatment consisted of iodoform dressing and 
suture of the skin flaps. A most important aid in this opera¬ 
tion is the fact that the cyst lies upon that side of the brain 
toward which the animal turns.— Mitlh. v. Kunz Schweiz . 
Archiv. 
The following is the composition of a liquid which evapo¬ 
rates rapidly, leaving behind a thin film possessing highly 
disinfecting properties. As in collodion, other medicaments 
may be incorporated in it. Dissolve twenty parts of cam¬ 
phor in the same quantity of alcohol; in this dissolve one 
part pyroxylin—pyroxylin is cotton treated with concentrated 
nitric acid. 
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Boschetti gives an account in the Moderno Zoojatro of the 
successful treatment of a very much debilitated and exhausted 
calf by the diurnal injection of testicle liquid. The dose was 
gradually increased from four to thirty cubic centimeters. 
