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tained by its use prove its superiority over all other forms of 
treatment. By subcutaneous injections of serum, varying in 
number from two to seven, say on an average of four a day, of 
lOO C.C., they have seldom failed to observe a rapid improve¬ 
ment in their general condition: if the colt presented a de¬ 
pressed condition^ with dyspnceic respiration^ acceleratedpnlse^ de¬ 
pression of the nervoiis system^ comatons^ staggering gait^ with 
anorexia^ one was surpidsed to observe the rapid i 7 nproveme 7 tt of 
the general condition and to notice after four injections the dis- 
pa^ftion of the loss of strength^ of the loss of appetite and of the 
co 77 iatous stated 
In a table comparing the results of their observations made 
in 374 cases, the benefits obtained by serotherapy over other 
forms of treatment leave no longer a doubt as to its efficacy. 
Of those 374 animals 97 were treated by injections of serum, 27 
by tracheal iodo-iodurate injections (method of Levi) and 250 
by mixed treatments. The results leave no doubt—95 recover¬ 
ies, 2 deaths with serum treatment; 21 recoveries, 6 deaths 
with Levi’s method ; 217 recoveries, 33 deaths with the other 
forms—or a mortality of 2.06, 22.22, 13!^ according to classes. 
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Intestinal Calculi. — The history of these foreign 
developments is well known and there remains but little, if 
anything, now to write on it. Their mode of growth, the 
starting point of their formation, the symptoms they give rise 
to and their peculiar location according to size in the intestinal 
tract, are familiar to all, and there is scarcely a veterinarian 
who has not met with them in his practice. It is true that 
often the diagnosis of their presence has not been made before 
death, and often also it has been only at the post-mortem that 
they have been discovered. And, yet, it seems that now and 
then some unusual case can be seen which in its entire relation 
differs from the general course, and to this class belongs one 
which I have heard related lately by M. Butel at the Societe 
Centrale de Medecine Veterinaire. 
The subject was a horse, whose age, made approximatively, 
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