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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Action of Creolin on Cats.—A Brooklyn woman was the 
owner of one Tom cat and three kittens, the mother of the kittens 
and their maternal aunt having been destroyed by chloroform 
on account of being affected with mange. The kittens and 
their father showing some symptoms of the same disease, were 
submitted to a bath composed of creolin, i part; water, 25 parts. 
I11 twenty minutes two of the young ones were deathly sick, 
described as lying upon their sides and gasping for breath, with 
vomiting and tetanic convulsions ; the third with vomiting, 
staggering gait, abstinence from food, very fast pulse, and was 
destroyed the next day, the other two dying during the first 
afternoon. The vigorous parent showed evidence of illness as 
early as the kittens, but being more resistant, did not at once 
succumb. When seen by a veterinarian two days later, he had 
a temperature of 106° F., pulse 160, with spells of difficult 
respiration and threatened heart failure. In spite of stimulants 
and nutrients, he was found dead the next morning. To those 
who have regarded creolin as a non-poisonous agent, this case 
may be interesting as showing its action upon members of the 
feline family. 
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