780 
EXTRACTS FROM EXCHANGES. 
Her choreic symptoms had for the principal cause the condition 
of gestation, arrived at its last period. 
Infectious Hepatitis of Young Pigs [By Mr. Cha- 
pias ].—Since 1889 the author has observed, during the winter, 
among sucking-pigs a very fatal disease, characterized at post¬ 
mortem by lesions of extensive hepatitis. Nocard, who has 
made a special study of the disease, attributes it to a hepatitis 
proceeding from gn umbilical affection which takes place during 
the first days following birth, by the introduction of various mi¬ 
crobes in the umbilical wound, and hence in various organs. 
The treatment is essentially prophylactic and consists in anti¬ 
septic washing of the umbilical region of the young animals, 
until complete cicatrization has taken place. Boric solutions 
and thymol give a thorough asepsy of the umbilical wound. 
Cleanliness of the pens, dry fresh bedding are also indicated.— 
[Progres Veter^ 
Iodide of Potassium in Strychnia Poisoning [By 
Mr. Videlie7 '\.— A small dog having probably eaten a piece'of 
meat intended to destroy the foxes in a private wood, was taken 
with all the symptoms of strychnia poisoning. Hying on his 
left side, his legs were stiffly stretched, the neck contracted in 
violent extension and the head drawn backwards, the tail ele¬ 
vated, the respirations short, difficult and accelerated. The 
slightest excitement brought on spasms of violent muscular ex¬ 
citation, hypersethesia extreme. At first, the author was embar¬ 
rassed as to what treatment must be adopted. A vomitive was 
administered with great difficulty, and an epidermic injection 
was made of 75 centigrammes of iodide of potassium, dissolved 
in a very small quantity of water. Twenty minutes afterwards 
the symptoms subsided, and gradually the animal recovered. 
The improvement showed itself before any other treatment was 
followed—and before any of a solution of bromide and of chloral, 
which had been prescribed, had been given. To the iodide the 
author attributes the antitoxic effects and the good results ob¬ 
tained.— [Rec. de Med. Vet.) 
SPANISH REVIEW. 
Indigestion and Copr^STASis [By Jos. Morales Lopez\. 
—A mule was affected with severe indigestion due to overloaded 
stomach, presenting the ordinary symptoms of this affection to 
an alarming degree. To relieve the symptoms and the 
struggles of the animal a hypodermic injection of muriate of 
