HOG CHOLERA. 
The disease thus designated in America appears to be on 
the increase in the districts around New York. Very recently 
the affection manifested itself in a large drove while m tran¬ 
situ from Buffalo; and before steps could be taken by the 
authorities several of the animals had been disposed of alive, 
and many others of the herd were found to be suffering from, 
the disease on a special examination being made. 
Hog cholera is allied to typhus of pigs, which disease 
was ably treated upon by Dr. Budd in his lecture delivered 
a year or two since at the rooms of the Royal Agricultural 
Society, and published in our Journal at the time. 
The readers of the Vetermarian in America, of which we 
know there are several, will do good service to pathology by 
sending us a description of hog cholera, especially a full 
account of the symptoms of the disease and the lesions 
Avhich are observed in a post-mortem examination. 
PARTURIENT APOPLEXY. 
Mr. Samuel Newman, INI.R.C.V.S., Havant, Hants, 
writes as follows :—“ I have read w’ith interest from year to 
year the several cases recorded in the Veterinarian by my 
brother practitioners of the above fatal disease, and confess to 
have felt quite envious at the great success they have met 
with in the treatment of it. I am only favoured with a 
small practice, but still have seen a great many cases during 
the twelve years I have been here. Since the first of this month 
(April) I have had six cases, and have tried every mode of 
treatment recommended, but five out of the six animals died. 
I have come to the conclusion that the members of our pro¬ 
fession who favour us with their experience in the Veterinaria^i 
do not record their unsuccessful cases, or, if otherwise, we get a 
worse form of the disease here than in many other counties. 
A NOVEL APPLICATION OF DRY EARTH. 
The Lancet says that, from a communication to the Neto 
ILorh Evening Post, we learn that at the time of the introduc¬ 
tion of an earth-closet into the surgical ward of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Hospital for trial, there was a patient present suffering 
from a severe compound fracture of the leg, the 'wound of 
