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toms, which at first sight simulated so well those of rabies.— 
[Bee. de Med. Vet.) 
A Rare Case of Fecundity in a Cow [By M. Mosse ].— 
The subject of this unusual case is a Dutch cow, aged 14 years, 
excellent milker, which never had any trouble in her many de¬ 
liveries. This time she has. After delivering a live calf and 
then a second one dead, she soon shows more laboring pains, 
and a third calf presents itself by the hind legs. The little fel¬ 
low is easily brought out ; he is dead, and the cow is much ex¬ 
hausted. But that was not all ; she is again taken with pains; 
exploration is made, and a fourth calf-is detected in the uterus. 
The cow is so weak, makes no efforts, and the calf has not yet 
passed the anterior straight of the pelvis. Four litres of coffee, 
with half a litre of rum, are given to her, and an injection of 
ergotine made subcutaneously back of the shoulder. In an hour 
the animal feels stronger, and one of the hocks of the calf has 
entered the pelvis. It is secured with rope, the other also, and 
the delivery completed quite easily. The envelopes were not 
expelled for a week and passed off in one mass. The living 
calf weighed 18 kilogs, the others about 20 a piece; altogether 
with the envelopes and all, some 90 kilogs.—( Journ. de Med. 
Vet. and Zootech.) 
Serotherapy of Anasarca [By M. Botz.~\. —A dappled grey 
gelding, five years old, convalescent from an attack of strangles, 
is six days after found suffering with anasarca, and presents the 
ordinary symptoms of the disease. Besides an internal treat¬ 
ment of sulphate of soda, nitrate of potassse, acetate of ammonia, 
digitalis powder and naphthol, he received for several days in 
succession 40, 30, 20, 20 and 10 cubic centimeters of antistrep¬ 
tococcic serum, when he improves. Three days later he has a 
relapse, and with the same treatment receives again 30, 30, 20, 
10, 10 cubic centimeters of serum. This means of treatment 
being exhausted its adminstration is stopped, and the next day 
the symptoms are such that the recovery of the animal seems 
very doubtful. A new supply of serum allows the administra¬ 
tion again of 40, 30, 30, 20, 20, 20, and 20 more centimeters, 
when serotherapy was stopped. Convalescence was long. Con¬ 
sidering the peculiarities of the two relapses, and not desiring to 
explain them, the author says that he never had occasion to find 
fault with that treatment, providing the serum was employed 
at the outset of the disease and in massive doses.— [Jour, de 
Zootechnie.) 
Perforation of the Uterus in a Cow—Recovery, 
