EXTRACTS PROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
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Droves to what extent the urethra of a mare can be dilated. I 
lave formerly thought instruments used in breaking stones in the 
Diadder were enormous in size, but their dimensions become in¬ 
significant when compared with the rough calculus expelled by 
simple natural effort in the present instance. 
EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS, 
HYDROTHERAPY IN PARTURIENT APOPLEXY. 
As a consequence of a series of interrogations made in rela¬ 
tion to the comparative value and the best results obtained by 
various methods of treatment against parturient apoplexy, the 
Recueil de Medecine Veterinaire publishes in the July number a 
statement of certain conclusions which seem to endorse the value 
Df the treatment inaugurated by Mr. Hartenstein in the use of 
hydrotherapy. This consists in associating with the usual reme¬ 
dies the application of cold water, either in douches, or by cold 
compresses of blankets over the whole body of the animal, includ¬ 
ing the head. A number of successful cases are recorded where 
the treatment was followed by rapid recovery, some of them be¬ 
ing of the most desperate character. Mr. Biot reports one of 
these cases, in which, after failure of his usual treatment, he 
miraculously , as it were, saved the patient by the use of hydro¬ 
therapy. The use of cold water by Hartenstein in the treatment 
of certain diseases may well be made the subject of experiment, 
and, by all accounts, has proved most beneficial when other forms 
of treatment had failed .—Recueil de Med. Vet. 
VIRUS OF CONTAGIOUS PLEURO-PNEUMONIA AND OF INFLUENZA. 
Prof. Lustig, of Hanover, has found in the lymph and in¬ 
flamed parts of the lungs of diseased cattle four kinds of micro¬ 
organisms. These are: 1st. Short and thick bacilli, which liquefy 
gelatine. 2d. A species of micrococci which do not liquefy gela¬ 
tine, but which, when cultivated with it, form deposits resembling 
cooked albumen. 3d. Micrococci like the preceding, but of yel- 
lowish color. 4th. Short bacilli, of an orange color, which seem 
