776 
EXTRACTS FROM EXCHANGES. 
tensive to be operated by bloodless measures. He resorted to 
the direct suture of the hernial ring. The patients, after fast¬ 
ing for 18 hours, were cast and chloroformed, the umbilical 
region shaved and disinfected on a broad surface, and the in¬ 
struments most minutely aseptised. After an incision of lo 
centimetres on the middle of the sac, the edges of the ring were 
either slightly scraped or excised, then sewed with silk soaked 
in sublimate solution; a similar suture was made in the skin 
and a coat of ichthyolized collodion put on, the whole wrapped 
up with a wadding dressing held in place by a bandage around 
the body. In one of the patients the dressing was removed on 
the tenth day and the wound found entirely cicatrized ; in the 
other on the sixth day, there remaining a little suppuration at 
the point of sutures, but these healed rapidly.—(// Niiovo Es- 
colani.') 
Stenosis of the Uterine O.s —Double Parturition— 
Laceration of the Umbilical Cord \^By Vachettd\. —With 
one of his colleagues, the author delivered a cow, fourteen years 
of age, of two calves, which were presented together, and with 
the condition of an os already cicatrized. A first foetus, ex¬ 
tracted by force, was asphyxiated through the passages. While 
searching for the second a stream of rather venous blood es¬ 
caped through the vulva, which made him suspect a laceration 
of the neck. The foetus was removed rapidly,, came out blood¬ 
less, and soon died. The cord had certainly been lacerated 
during the extraction of the first calf. The cow did well.—(// 
N2LOV0 Escolmii,') 
IMixed Infections in Cryptococci Farcy \By L. Barn- 
cJielld\. —The author has observed an enzooty of cryptococci 
farcy (“ water farcy ” of the French), which lasted 13 months, 
and affected 13 horses. The animals came from the country, 
where they had been at liberty in marshy lands, some convales¬ 
cent after sickness or after having been fired. Barnchello thinks 
that it is through the numerous wounds (points' of firing, 
scratches, cicatrices softened by the dampness) that the inocu¬ 
lations occurred in a place so favorably disposed for the conser¬ 
vation if not the multiplication of the germs. On this occasion 
Barnchello succeeded in obtaining on microscopic slides the 
cryptococats farcmniostts in all the cases, pure at first, but later 
mixed with the various microbes of suppuration, specially 
staphylococci.—(//Nuovo Escolani .) 
Subcutaneous Myotomy in Cases of Congenital 
Stricture of the Anus \^By Dr. Toiiini Giovaimi\ . —Rec- 
