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EDITORIAL. 
the preventive use of the serum, to avoid contagion in families, 
is becoming more and more generalized, and on that account 
the number of cases diminishes. 
mortality from 1888 to 1900. 
Before After 
Serotherapy —1889. . .123 deaths. Serotherapy —1895. . . 42 deaths. 
1890 . 
. .103 deaths. 
1896 . . 
• 3 i 
1891 . 
.90 “ 
1897 . . 
. 26 
1892 . 
. .117 “ 
1898 . . 
• 37 
1893. . 
.114 “ 
1899 • 
. . 28 
1894 . 
. .106 “ 
1900 . . 
. 18 
From 1888 to 1894, six years, the total of deaths has been 
in the city of Lille 653, an average of 109 a year. From 1895 
to 1900, six years also, the number of deaths has been 182, an 
average of 30 a year. These figures will no doubt be lowered 
when physicians no longer hesitate to inject the serum in cases 
of suspicious sore throats, rather than wait until the bacterio¬ 
logical examination of the false membranes has established the 
& . • 
diagnosis. As curative or preventive, the antidiptheric serum 
cannot give rise to any serious accidents, and, on the contrary, 
offers incontestable advantages. 
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“ White Scours ” and its History. —In a short editorial 
of the Veterinary Record I have found the following as being 
taken from the Veterinarian , vol. XI, p. 613 : 
“ Violent Diarrhoea , with Inflammation of the Umbilicus .— 
During this year there has frequently appeared among calves 
and foals a violent and to all appearances an inflammatory 
diarrhoea, which, if not suppressed in time, destroyed them. In 
the post-mortem examination of these animals the essential dif¬ 
ference observable was always an inflamed state of the umbili¬ 
cal artery from the navel to the bladder. The parietes of the 
bladder were very much thickened and softened, and a collec¬ 
tion of matter was found under its peritoneal covering. The 
only specific and sure medicine to be given to young calves and 
foals affected by the disease is the kal. sulphuratuin (sulphur¬ 
ated potash or liver of sulphur), of which half a teaspoonful at a 
time may be administered.” 
