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EXTRACTS EROM EXCHANGES. 
abscess with opening’ on one side in the nterns and later on infih 
tration of the snrplns of the abscess and of the nterine secretion 
into the layers of mnscles of the flank. 
Treatment of Dog Distemper by the Trichloride 
OF Iodine. —Ellerman recommends the daily snbcntaneons in¬ 
jection, during eight, ten, or fifteen days, according to the 
severity of the cases, of 5 or lo grammes (dose in proportion to 
the size of the animal) of a solution of i to 2000 of bichloride 
of iodine in distilled water. 
Palatine Fistulas in Cattle. —Brndwall has observed 
two cases, one in a young bnll, the other in a cow, presenting 
the following symptoms : Dysphagia, foetid breath, alimentary 
discharge by the nose, easy prehension and deglutition of soft 
food and soups ; hay, dry fodders, chewed and swallowed with 
difficulty are rejected in balls from the month. These fistulas 
consist in two openings, occupying the soft part of the palatine 
roof, admitting the introduction of the small finger and situated 
on each side of the median line. The treatment consists in 
feeding with nutritious soups, and irrigations of the month with 
2 per cent, alum solutions—turn out to pasture if season per¬ 
mits. The author attributes those fistulas to the weakness of 
congenital structure of the soft part of the palate, which implies 
the presence or existence of small openings or of weak portions 
which, under the impression of the repeated pressure made by 
the hard and fibrous alimentary boli, enlarge or are perforated 
and transformed into fistulous tracts. 
RUSSIAN REVIEW. 
Gemellar Gestation in a Mare [By Kvatchkoff \,— 
An army mare, sent to be covered, remained to the horse for 
a month, and was served several times by an Anglo-Arab stal¬ 
lion. She aborted ten months later with two well-formed dead 
colts. Each had its chorion, one being larger than the other. 
From this the author concluded that the mare was fecundated 
in two meetings after a certain lapse of time where first concep¬ 
tion had taken place. The mare had a slight fever, but recov¬ 
ered readily in a couple of weeks. The cause of abortion was 
not discovered. 
Cribbing in a Five Months Colt [By Kvatchkoff \.—A 
colt, born of a young and healthy mare, did not crib, but at 
five months began to do it. Many means used to prevent him 
