532 SYNOPSIS OF CONTINENTAL VETERINARY JOURNALS. 
it was absolutely necessary to avoid all danger of reinfection.. 
Equal parts of iodine and glycerine mixed were applied with 
friction to the udder. The other affected parts were cau¬ 
terised with nitric acid (-|). This treatment was pre¬ 
ceded by a thorough washing of the whole surface with soap 
and water by means of a brush, with the intention of re¬ 
moving scales, crusts, and germs from the skin. The fol¬ 
lowing day (22nd August) decided improvement was indi¬ 
cated by a return of the appetite and less profuse cutaneous 
secretion. The treatment was continued, and on the 27th 
the sweating entirely ceased, and the general state of the 
animal’s health was entirely satisfactory. The other cow 
was rapidly cured. On the 4th September, when the cure 
seemed to be complete, over the whole surface of the body 
occurred a profuse epidermic exfoliation under the form of 
branny scales ; these, in falling, carried the hair with them. 
This furfuraceous condition readily yielded to alkaline 
lotions and whisping. The use of nitric acid was rather a 
mistake, for on some spots it caused deeply-extending eschars, 
and these parts remained permanently denuded of hair. 
In reviewing the statements of authors who have treated 
on the diseases of the skin of the ox we have found no de¬ 
scription of the condition above mentioned. The “ Num¬ 
mular Herpes,” described by Lafosse in his Treatise of 
Veterinary Pathology , ii, p. 167, somewhat resembles it, 
but especially differs in the nature of the secretion of the 
dermis; also its progress is not a gradual invasion. It is not 
very serious, for it becomes cured spontaneously, and, ac¬ 
cording to Lafosse, is non-contagious. “ Humid tetter,” de¬ 
scribed by Cruzel in his Treatise on the Diseases of the Bovine 
Species , is a disease which I have frequently observed in my 
neighbourhood, but is entirely different. In his Treatise , 
iii, p. 188, Lafosse says, indeed, that in the later stages of 
(< muguetf exanthemata of various kinds may appear on 
the skin, but he says no more, and leaves us entirely in 
doubt as to their characters. 
This account by M. Collin, which we have given almost 
vh extenso, will be appreciated by many of us who have 
learned the complexities of study of cutaneous disorders. 
M. Cornerin's Revue , as usual, is highly interesting. It 
this time treats of Agriculture and Zootechny. M. Dele’s 
paper on the “Exportation of Cattle from, and the diseases 
prevalent among them, in America ” is given and followed by 
the observations of M. Laverriere on fat beasts at the last 
cattle show, in which he urges that these exhibitions might 
be made still more profitable if, instead of losing sight of 
