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standing, he first resorted to injection of bromidate of arecoline 
and afterwards to the use of atropine and morphine mixed; 
but, these being followed with no result, he decided to resort to 
injections of solution of salt at 7% heated to 40° C. Eight in¬ 
jections were made various days apart. From the first injection 
a marked improvement was noticed, and after the second the 
animal travelled sound for a short distance. The recovery was 
completed after a few days. In a second case, the lameness 
was first treated by frictions of spirits of camphor and then fol¬ 
lowed by the use of a similar solution of salt. In the beginning 
the first three injections were without results; the three follow¬ 
ing gave a marked improvement and four more brought about 
a complete recovery. In the third case, an injection of atropine 
and morphine was first resorted to, as there was great pain in 
the shoulder; when that had subsided salt was injected and its 
use was followed by complete recovery also. There remained, 
however, a certain stiffness, which was relieved after five days 
by atropine and morphine. The fourth case was very similar 
to the preceding, and was followed by the same results and 
stiffness ; but ultimately recovered entirely.—(// Nuovo Erco- 
lani.') 
An Enzooty of Sand Disease in Buffalo Calves [By 
Prof. G. Marcone\. — A breeder who kept his young calves in a 
pasture near Caperna, through which the Volturno river passes, 
noticed that many were dying ; he had lost 31 out of 85, and 
thought that perhaps anthrax was the cause of death. One of 
the sick buffaloes was sent to the clinic of the Veterinarv College 
of Naples, where he exhibited the following symptoms : The 
animal was eight months old, thin in condition, weak, and 
moved slowly ; temperature 37.8° C. ; pulse slow and thready; 
respiration slow, and accompanied now and then by groans; 
there was no appetite, no rumination. The conjunctivse were 
injected, the nose dry, mouth cold, thick saliva running from it; 
thoracic organs apparently sound ; abdomen somewhat painful, 
with flabby walls. The hand introduced in the rectum drew 
dry faeces, gray, heavy and sandy in appearance. The calf died 
the next day after his admission to the hospital. At the post¬ 
mortem all the organs were found healthy, but in each cavity 
of the stomach, the intestines as far back as the rectum, quite a 
large quantity of a gray, heavy substance was found, which, 
gathered together, formed quite a large mass. The mucous 
membrane of the intestines was cyanotic in its whole extent. 
The contents of the digestive tract proved to be composed of 
