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Yellow Fever and Preventative Inoculation. —The Gaz¬ 
ette Ilebdomadaire de Medecine et de Chirurgie quotes a Rio de 
Janeiro paper to the effect that Dr. Domingo Freire’s supposed 
discovery of the contagium vivum of yellow'fever, and of the prac¬ 
ticability of preventing the disease by inoculation, are attested 
thus far by 211 successful inoculations.— JV. Y. Medical Journal. 
Tuberculosis in Hens.— The Journal of Comparative Medi- 
icine and Surgery says: Professor Johne, of Dresden, {Deutsche 
Jand-Press), reports quite a number of cases of tuberculosis in 
hens, which were traced to their being fed by a person having the 
disease, and who had the habit of giving the hens meat which she 
had chewed up for the juices. She was very fond of the hens, 
and in summer weather they would congregate about her, and fre¬ 
quently would pick up the sputa which she had coughed up. 
The liver, kidneys and intestines were mostly affected. 
Destructive Buffalo Gnats. —A well-known traveler for one 
of the largest grocery houses in Memphis, who recently returned 
from Mississippi, reports fully 1,500 mules in Yalobusha and 
Grenada counties, Mississippi, as having fallen victims to buffalo 
gnats within the last week. Their depredations this year exceed 
all previous records, and there is no hope of the pests disappear¬ 
ing until warm weather. Over 600 mules have been killed by 
them within a radius of ten miles from Grenada, Miss.— DnutorCs 
Spirit of the Turf. 
Shock as a Therapeutic Agent. —Dr. James P. Tuttle, of 
New York City, writes: “Your short notes on ‘Shock as a 
Therapeutic Agent ’ recalls to me a practice among rude, country 
veterinary men, which I was able to see applied some years ago. 
It is the shock treatment for lock-jaw in horses, and is applied as 
follows: A board, one inch thick and about six inches wide, is 
laid across the forehead, and struck forcibly with an ax or ham¬ 
mer, staggering, or even felling the animal to the earth, when re¬ 
laxation of the spasms is said to occur. Those who practice it 
aver it never fails. Certainly the case I saw was good evidence 
of the truth of this assertion, for the spasms at once relaxed, and 
a tobacco poultice being applied, they did not return.”— Medical 
Record. 
