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frequent is the first. At ordinary temperature milk coagulation 
is almost exclusively due to it. Neutral lactic acid (which does 
not act optically) is formed in the milk at the same time as the 
first, and second micro-organisms develop. Conditions on food 
of the micro-organisms have no influence on the nature of the 
acids they form.—( ArcJiiv. Vet. Russ, and Prog. Vet.) 
Poisoning by Bees’ Sting [/. Berger]. —While two 
bees’ hives were moved, two thoroughbred colts were stung. 
One principally on one side of the neck and the other on the 
superior part of the respiratory tracts. On account of these 
stings, the first had a swelling as big as the hand on one side 
of the neck and in the other tracheotomy had been performed 
because of the difficulty of respiration. With him there was 
also a manifest dysphragia, which produced dropping of food in 
the trachea, followed by pneumonia by foreign bodies and 
death in six days. The swelling of the first was incised and 
disappeared in a few days. As curiosity the author mentions 
that the sire of the colt that died had bitten its dam during 
copulation on the left side of the chest and that when the colt 
was born, he carried on the same spot a defectuosity of the 
skin, just where the mother had been bitten eleven months be¬ 
fore.—( Archiv. Vet. Russ, and Prog. Vet.) 
ITALIAN REVIEW. 
Megaeonosphenia in the Horse \Dott. Carlo Nenci- 
oni]. —In July last a horse, aged 17 years, was brought to him 
for a large suppurative collection on the left gluteal region. 
The abscess was opened and drained. After a few days the ap¬ 
petite became delicate, and gradually the animal manifested 
symptoms of excessive anaemia, with which he died in a few 
days. At the post-mortem nothing special was found in the 
thoracic cavity, but on opening the abdomen it was found to 
contain a great quantity of sero-bloody fluid with thick clots 
of blood. The liver was soft. The spleen was enormously 
distended and filled one-third of the abdominal cavity. Its con¬ 
sistency was puffy ; its superficy bosselated ; the follicles hyper¬ 
trophied. At about the centre of the external face there was a 
laceration through which the slow, fatal haemorrhage had taken 
place. The seat of the abscess on the gluteal region presented 
nothing unusual beyond the lesion following a probably casual 
bruise. The weight of the spleen carefully taken was 13 kilogs 
600.—(// Nuevo Ercolani.) 
