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cows is often disagreeable to the owners, and it occasionally 
may cause great loss to them. A treatment, accompanied with 
good results, therefore, would be very much welcomed. The 
author succeeded in 80 to 90 per cent, of cases, to allay the dis¬ 
eased condition, and of the cured in about 30 per cent, to bring 
on the regular period of oestrum. The treatment consists of 
crushing the cysts in the ovaries, by the way of the rectum, 
which almost in every case are the causes of nymphomania. 
After the operation the symptoms disappear in a short time. 
The hollowing on the sides of the first coccygeal vertebrae, which 
is considered almost as a pathognomonic symptom of nympho¬ 
mania, will disappear as a rule, in the course of a few days, as 
the dropped broad ligaments of the pelvis will regain their nor¬ 
mal position. The ceasing of oestrum in some cases may be due 
to the insufficient transformation of the corpora lutea. Those 
also can be determined by a rectal examination and squeezed 
out, after which procedure the period of oestrum will often re¬ 
appear.—( Mittheilung d. Ver. bad . Thierarzt .) 
To the Treatment of Lung Tuberculosis with Tu¬ 
berculin [Dr. Goetch , with a Postscript of Prof. R. Kochi ].— 
In cases of tuberculosis which were not considered as mixed in¬ 
fections with suppuration, the tuberculin treatment was applied 
by G. The diagnosis of tuberculosis he establishes in the 
patient, by the presence of tubercle bacilli in the sputum, or by 
the suspicion from the constitutional and physical'condition of 
the body, and by the response of the tuberculin test, with an 
elevation of the temperature. By gradually increasing the dose 
in such a manner that a new increase is not undertaken before 
the last injection expires without a reaction, the patient stands a 
dose of 1 gm. of tuberculin, which then completes the cure. The 
bacilli and cough will disappear, and an increase in the bodily 
weight will be observed. To these interesting observations 
Koch adds the remarks, that the unfavorable results with tuber¬ 
culin are often to be traced back to the cause, that it has been 
applied in cases which were not pure tuberculosis, but compli¬ 
cations with suppurative processes. In the early states of 
tuberculosis which are not too far advanced in nonfebrile 
lung tuberculosis, the tuberculin treatment was effective in 
every case. One must avoid a strong reaction. Dr. Goetch, 
as much as possible, avoided reactions, and finally arrived to very 
high doses. From these astonishing good results of the author, 
Koch personally convinced himself in the Slawentzitz sick 
house.—( Deutsche Medec. Wochenschr.) 
