NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
393 
Loco.— A. writer on loco says the plant is not poisonous. 
When cattle eat a quantity, it absorbs the juices of the alimentary 
canal, or dries them up. It then collects in the stomach and 
intestines as a dry mass, and the pressure on the circulation 
causes all the symptoms observable and finally produces death. 
The internal condition of cattle dying of this disease will verify 
this view. 
Oxide of zinc, according to Prof. Peterson, of Kiel, is just 
as good as iodoform in the treatment of wounds, is not poisonous, 
is cheaper, and does not smell offensively. 
Dr. Koch’s Cholera Inoculation. — An exchange says 
Koch’s “ comma bacillus ” appears to be having a hard time of it 
among the experts. First, Dr. Klein showed his contempt for it 
by swallowing it, and now Dr. Lancaster has the unkindness to 
say—first, it is not comma-shaped ; second, it is not a bacillus ; 
third, it does not always occur in the intestines of cholera patients, 
and fourth, there is no good evidence that inoculation with it 
produces cholera. In fact the poor thing appears to be about 
annihilated by its critics. Cholera, though, will remain undis¬ 
turbed by it, and relentlessly claim its thousands of victims as 
heretofore .—Medical Record. 
Reunion of Separated Members. — Dr. Klein, of the 
Austrian array, reports two cases of perfect reunion after separa¬ 
tion of members, which clearly demonstrate that the preservation 
of separated members in alcohol is not the sole office of the 
surgeon in such accidents. Both cases referred to self-inflicted 
amputation of fingers (to avoid military service.) In one case 
union resulted in twenty-two days, in the other, where the finger 
was only found half au hour after the amputation, the cold and 
blue member grew warm on the second day, and had re-established 
its former relations completely within six weeks. Iodoform- 
gauze was used in both cases.— Therapeutic Gazette. 
Costly Curs. —A correspondent of the New York Tribune 
says: There was once a people who worshipped the cat; we 
sacrifice to the cur dog 40,000,000 sheep annually. What a 
noble creature must be this cur dog! These 40,000,000 sheep 
