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EXTRACTS FROM EXCHANGES. 
Treatment consisted of steam inhalations and bodily friction.— 
{Bert. Thierdrzt. WocJi.') 
The Treatment of Lumbago Gravis of the Horse 
WITH Sodium Bicarbonate. —According to Prof. D.’s direc¬ 
tions, I had occasion to use the remedy in three severe cases of 
lumbago in horses. The horses held their loins rigid, were 
afraid to move them in the least on account of the pain ; there 
was congestion of the mucous membranes ; urine was very dark 
and scanty. Two of the horses lay very still; one remained 
standing, but dreaded to swerve in the least particular. One 
received an injection of eserin (o.i), the other two an aloes pill 
of 40 g. each. This was followed up by two hourly and later 
three hourly doses of 75 g. of sodium bicarbonate, day and 
night, with the result that one animal could rise again in eight¬ 
een hours after taking eight doses in all of the salt. Another 
rose in twenty-four hours after teu doses of the salt, while the 
last required thirty doses of the remedy before it could move 
again, viz., three and one-half days.— {Berl. Thierm^zt. JVoc/i.) 
A Warning Against Koch’s New Tuberculin. —Dencke, 
Maczewski, and Logucki published simultaneously in the Medi¬ 
cal Press and Therapeutical Wochenschrift a warning against 
Koch’s new tuberculin. They found pneumococci, staphy¬ 
lococci, streptococci in various preparations issued by the 
“ Hdchster Fabrik.” They were induced to search for germs 
in the preparations from the fact that after three injections each 
of 1-500 mgr. of the remedy in a case of apex catarrh and tuber¬ 
cular laryngitis, very threatening symptoms were induced. The 
germs above mentioned were found in all three vials used for the 
injections.— (Berl. Thierdrzt. IVoch.) 
FRENCH REVIEW. 
Rupture of the Anterior Vena Cava in a Horse.— 
This is probably the first case on record of such an accident, as 
recorded by Mr. C. Lesbre, who relates it in the Jotir^ial of 
Zodtechuie. An old horse, 19 years of age, at light work, trot¬ 
ting slowly, falls and in less than five minutes dies. At the 
post-mortem, the lesions found consisted .of a large effusion of 
blood (15 to 20 litres) in the chest, with large fibrinous clots. 
The anterior mediastinum presents a triangular laceration and 
the blood coagulated between the layers gives it the aspect of a 
broad clot. This haemorrhage has taken place through a slit of 
the anterior vena cava, on its inferior face, measuring some 6 
