EXTRACTS FROM EXCHANGES. 
men [By Mr. A. Roudelln ].—A five-year-old pointer, ordinarily 
good humored, but sometimes capricious, at one time when in 
heat showed peculiar symptoms: loss of appetite, irritability 
refusing sexual intercourse, although plainly in heat He 
looked suspicious of rabies; a few days later the symptoms were 
more marked, he bit a dog and a person, and finally died para¬ 
lyzed. At the post-mortem the veterinarian who made the 
diagnosis of rabies found it confirmed, but besides a strongvlus' 
gigas in the abdominal cavity, which had the serous membrane 
much inflamed. Mr. Tricern hesitates as to the correctness of 
Ins diagnosis. However, the person who was bitten was placed 
imdei treatment, and the brain of the dog sent to Dr. Rondel]ii 
to inoculate two rabbits. Sixteen days later both died with 
rabies; inoculation in series as far as the third generation con- 
filmed the diagnosis. The conclusion is that in pseudo-rabies 
one must not be too hasty in making a diagnosis for fear of 
serious sequelae.—( Gioarn. de Acad. Vet. Ital.) 
Vermicular Phthisis of Calves [By E. Perroncito\.~ 
he author mentions a number of experiments that he has 
made on the duration of life of the strongyli with various liquids 
administered by intratracheal injections : In sulphuric or muri- 
atic acids, i per cent., it lasted 4 to 5 minutes ; in phenic acid 
1 per cent., 5 minutes ; in creosote, 1 per cent., 7 to 8 minutes • 
m saturated solutions of thymol, 6 to 8 minutes ; in aqueous 
so utions of salicylic acid, 17 minutes ; in formaline, 1 or 2 per 
cent, 5 to 6 minutes ; in a liquid composed of 5 parts thymol, 
5 of chloroform, 45 of glycerine, 5 minutes. Dr. Cattania, who 
treated animals with those preparations, considered the iniec- 
tions of phenic acid .by far the best .—{Giourn. Veter. Soc. di 
lorino.) 
Duratkjn of Gestation in the Sow [By S. Baldassire 1. 
— the following interesting records are published from obser¬ 
vations made by the author in sows : In Yorkshire breeds.— 
1 gestation of 99 days, 4 of 112, 6 of 113, 6 of 114, 10 of ik 
n of 116, 5 of 117, 4 of 118, 2 of 119, 2 of 120, 1 of 128, 1 of 
129 1 of 136. In Casertana breeds. —3 gestations of 106 days 
3 of 107, 2 of 110, 4 of hi, 2 of 113, 2 of 115, 2 of 116, 1 of 
122. I11 crossing these breeds the averages have been 112 tit 
no, 109 and iii. 
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