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two tablespoonfuls of the medicine instead of one, hopino- to 
accelerate the recovery. The dog had manifested no serious 
effects, but appeared as usual and has remained so. One result 
of the pilocarpine treatment consisted in alopecia of all four leo-s 
but a new growth of hair soon started, although beiim of 1 
lighter color than originally.— {Berlin. Thier. IVochensch.) ‘ 
ENGLISH REVIEW. 
Operation for Stone in the Bitch [By A. /. Sewell 
M. R. C. V 6.]. The author after giving the symptoms that 
accompany vesical calculus and making some remarks on 
lithotomy and lithotnty, relates a case in which he operated on 
a small toy terrier bitch, over 13 years of age, resorting to the 
pubic operation, and in which he removed two calculi one as 
large as a small walnut, the other smaller and flat on one side 
as if it had rubbed against the first. Complete recovery occurred 
111 three weeks a kind of vesical fistula interfering with the 
healing process for some time. The operation was carried out 
under the usual aseptic conditions. In conclusion Mr. S. savs : 
Eithotrity should always be performed, when possible, instead 
oi lithotomy, being a much safer operation, except, of course, 
when the stone is quite small, when it may be removed entire 
with a small pair of forceps. A great drawback of lithotrity is 
t iat when the calculus is large, it takes a long time to remove 
all the fragments.”—( Vet. Record .) 
Canine Influenza, or What? [By H. Gray , M. R. C. 
l .S.~\. Influenza is admitted to affect dogs by French and 
English writers, but the affection observed by the author is more 
of the nature of “grave infectious stomatitis.” In the early 
part of 1898 many cases were brought to him, as many as 15 in 
a day and often 50 a week. The symptoms were shivering loss 
of appetite, depression, vomiting, difficulty or inability to sleep 
buccal mucous membrane covered with thick soapy mucus also 
011 gums, tongue, soft palate and pharynx. Tip of the tongue 
gangrenous, with a tendency to expand. The whole region" of 
the mouth was of dark reddish appearance. Mouth hadlidor of 
sour ensilage. Rapid fatal pneumonia occurred in many cases. 
Sometimes there was diarrhoea, sometimes none. Slight cases 
were subject to relapse. Recovery occurred in strong doo-s, but 
in o d, heart or kidney lesions followed by death were frequent. 
Convalescence long. The treatment consisted in tonics, quinine 
<111 i\ drocli. acid, tinct. cinchona, amputation of gangrenous 
