156 SYNOPSIS OF CONTINENTAL VETERINARY JOURNALS. 
fasc.), does not tend to support this opinion :—A cow has 
for some days been off her feed. She has a dull, painful 
cough; the respiration is laboured and abdominal; an 
abundant discharge collects around the nostrils; there is pain 
on pressure of the intercostal spaces. On percussion of the 
right side a dull, feeble sound is recognisable, with firm 
resistance of the parts; normal resonance in some parts of 
the lung. Auscultation confirms the results from per¬ 
cussion. Pulse, 50 per minute; temperature of the surface 
variable and irregularly diffused. Diagnosis. —Interstitial 
pneumonia involving a considerable portion of the lung. 
The cow is slaughtered, and, on autopsy, exhibits the same 
lesions as are found in pleuro-pneumonia contagiosa. Never¬ 
theless of six other cows in the same stable none showed 
the slightest symptom of disease 55 ( Der Thierarzt , No. 1). 
We have lately received from Professor Edoardo Per- 
roncito, who occupies the chair of veterinary medicine at 
the University of Turin, copies of certain papers communi¬ 
cated by him to the Annals of the Agricultural Academy of 
Turin, as well as his 1879 introductory address on the 
Parasites of Man. These papers on (C Tuberculosis in its 
Relations to Social and Rural Economy,” on u Grandine or 
Panicatura (cestode tuberculosis) in Man and other Animals,” 
“ On Progressive Muscular Atrophy in a Calf,” “ Epizootic 
Typhoid of Fowls,” and “ Tcenia alba,” & c., serve to assure 
us of the good scientific work which is being done by the 
author. His observations of the typhoid disease of fowls are 
most interesting. His paper on this subject was read in 1878, 
and the remarkable results obtained by Perroncito are men¬ 
tioned in the paper on “ Typhoid Fever of the Pig and Typhus 
of Fowls,” by M. Megnin, in the Recueil de Medecine Veteri- 
naire for 15th January, 1880. “ Finally, since 1876 I have 
many times observed and studied typhus in the bodies of fowls 
which have been sent to one of my friends, director of the 
journal known as UAcclimation, by the subscribers of the 
said journal, who are mostly agriculturists. I have been thus 
able to verify the exactness of the descriptions of Professor 
Perroncito, of Turin, and especially to confirm the discovery 
which he made in 1878 in his memoire (the one before us), 
which for the first time describes and figures the micro¬ 
coccus or microbium which is the intimate cause of typhus 
of fowls, and by multiplying in the blood of affected birds 
soon renders that fluid unfit to support life.” 
Megnin inserts the figure of the micrococcus after Perron¬ 
cito, and contrasts it with the Bacteria of “ charbon ” and 
of " typhoid of the pig.” In the same number of the same 
