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or cure him failed, and he kept on in the bad habit. What 
was most singular is that the colt had always lived in liberty, 
always had plenty to eat, and has never been around cribbing 
horses. After a while his mother took the same habit, and it was 
with the greatest difficulty that she was cured of it. The colt 
has had several attacks of colic. Taking in consideration the 
conditions under which the trouble developed in the colt, and 
failing to explain by any cause such an early appearance, the 
author thinks that to heredity on the side of the sire may be 
attributed the disease which rendered the young animal com¬ 
paratively worthless. 
Double C^cum in a Cow. —At a slaughter-house Mr. 
Staedter found a cow which had a double csecum. One was 8o 
c. meters long and 9 wide, the other i meter long and 80 
c. meters wide. Both csecums were united by a loose connective 
tissue. The smallest portion constituted a prolongation of the 
colon, while the other was in communication with the same vis¬ 
cera through the intermediate of a canal 5 c. meters long and 
ending immediately after in the floating colon. This fact is 
interesting in the anatomical point of view, as the existence of 
a double caecum, rule in birds, is exceptional. 
Echinococcus on the Mitral Valve. —On a steer killed 
for market, Mr. Kvatchkoff found on the mitral valve a vesicle 
about the size of a seed of corn. At first he took it for a cysti- 
cercus, but on more careful examination he observed that the 
vesicle was single, located in the middle of the mitral valve, 
spherical, well defined, of a mat white color, and contained a 
colorless, transparent fluid. Under microscopic examination, 
with great power, small papillae were detected on its internal 
face, close to each other, and in some places folded together. 
These papillae seemed to contain granulations. The vesicle was 
evidently a proligerous hydatic cyst. 
Tetanus Cured by Subcutaneous Injections of Eug- 
HOL (?) Solution. —Grunner had a very serious case of tetanus, 
with so severe symptoms that the prognosis was considered as 
fatal. He resorted to subcutaneous injections of iodine under 
the form of Eughol solution (iodine, 1,0; iodide of potassium, 
5, o ; distilled water, 100.0). Beginning with two injections of 
five grammes each, he gradually increased the dose to eight in¬ 
jections. When improvement took place, he reduced the injec¬ 
tions as well as their strength. Altogether he injected 300 
grammes of the solution in 12 days, and on the 19th of the 
disease the horse was entirely cured. 
