484 SYNOPSIS OF CONTINENTAL VETERINARY JOURNALS, 
practice. Insoluble in water, and but little soluble in alcohol, 
it is freely soluble in fats, essential oils, chloroform, and 
carbon disulphide. It dissolves iodine, sulphur, phos¬ 
phorus, benzoic and carbolic acids, and almost all alka¬ 
loids ; it neither rancifies nor saponifies, and hence is useful 
as an excipient for caustic alkalies, oxides, and metallic salts 
and acids, since it is not acted upon by them ; from this we 
may infer that it is likely to prove very useful in practice. 
It has a marked emollient action when applied to the skin, 
and as an excipient is preferable to lard, and even to glyce¬ 
rine, which is not similarly useful because of its solu¬ 
bility in water. In Germany it is administered internally 
in diseases of the respiratory organs. When applied to the 
skin of the dog, it will not tempt the animal to lick himself, 
and so ingest the medicament applied, for lard thus proves 
sometimes inconveniently like the animal’s food. During 
the moist days of winter it was employed with success for 
psoriasis of the limbs, cases where ordinary unguents suc¬ 
ceed so seldom, also in cases of cracks. With sulphur in 
proportions of three to ten of the vaseline, it forms a po¬ 
made in which the greater part of the sulphur is dissolved, 
which is useful in psoriasis to protect the parts from mud 
and moisture. In certain forms of ringworm of the dog, 
good results followed application of vaseline and iodide of 
sulphur. Mixtures of vaseline and caustic alkalies would 
be useful in cauterization of tumours, with lard or glycerine, 
caustic potash readily takes up moisture and undergoes 
decomposition.” 
Memoire on “ Dourine,” by L. Trasbot (Professor), from 
Archives Veterinaires d'Alfort and Annales de Med. Vet. 
“ Principal Symptoms .—Appetite good during the first 
period; considerable falling off in condition of the patient 
without any appreciable visceral affection to which to attribute 
it. Temperature at the rectum normal. Respiration and pulse 
slow. The author attributes the wasting to perversion of 
nutrition, and not to excessive waste. Arthritis of the left 
hock occurred without any apparent cause from without— 
cutaneous plates found by slight thickening of the dermis, 
erection of the hairs, and a crusty condition of the epider¬ 
mis, serous tumours, difficulty in passing of urine, swelling 
of visible lymphatic glands, sudden paralysis sharply, at a 
given phase of the attack, passing from one limb to another, 
then paraplegia. In one of the two subjects under observa¬ 
tion during the course of the attack a small hemispherical 
elevation of about 2—3 mm. in size, and transparent, pale 
yellow colour appeared at the margin of the urethral tube. 
