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ordinary list of causes—predisposition, climate, food, water, &c. 
Prognosis varies as the first curative attempts are successful 
or the reverse. Treatment .—Hygienic, consists in all those 
means which are considered prophylactic, good stables, 
avoidance of rapid changes of temperature, regulation of 
warmth of the surrounding medium, also of food, as especi¬ 
ally only the gradual substitution of barley for oats. Occa¬ 
sional administrations of mild cathartics, &c. Curative 
treatment comprises use of aloes, lime water, cold baths, 
douches, stimulants externally (especially to the thoracic 
walls), tartar emetic, sulphate of quinine, alcohol, &c., as the 
symptoms indicate. Bleeding is always prejudicial. So this 
disease seems to us a form of those affections which in France 
we call typhoid. The climatic conditions determine the 
special form which it exhibits, and confer upon it such 
interest that we have deemed it right to examine it at some 
length here. 
“ Oviform bodies in the Liver of a Dog; comparable with 
the Hepatic Psorosperm of Rabbits,” by Perroncito ( ZeiU 
scTirift fur Vet. TViss., Berlin, 1877). In a dog destroyed 
for teaching purposes, whose intestine contained many taeniae 
( T . serrata and T. cucumerina) } wene found on a section 
of the liver, which presented also red puncta, small 
spots of a yellowish-white colour surrounded by sinuous 
passages similar to those which indicate the course of the 
biliary canals in the liver of a rabbit affected with psoro- 
sperms. By microscopic examination these spots were found 
to be composed of ovoid cells, with thick walls enclosing a 
number of granules and corpuscles of a caseous and fatty 
nature. These cellules were situated in the biliary canals 
which had lost their epithelial lining at the seat of the 
collection. In form, seat, position, and resulting lesions, 
then, they remind us of the psorosperms of rabbits. This 
important observation is deserving of record here, for, though 
psorospermism has been often noted in domestic rodents, it 
has seldom been observed in the dog. For further details of 
this affection we will refer our readers to the interesting 
report by M. Railliet on the disease as occurring in the 
rabbit (Soc. Centrale de Med. Vet. Seance du 28 Novembre, 
1878). 
<c An epizootic Affection of Fowls,” by Mayer ( Repertorium 
of Hering and Vogel , 1877). This epizootic has been 
observed in March and April, 1877, at Rothenberg, 
Tubingen, Ludwigsburg, and Ulm. It sometimes assumed 
a diphtheritic, sometimes a form of pulmonary typhoid 
nature. The following were the symptoms: somnolency, 
