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Brustseuche also differs essentially from scaltna. The general 
symptoms of this last affection, the absence of the yellowish line 
of the mucous membranes, and of the bloody discharge from the 
nose, and of the various other characteristics of pneumonia, are 
sufficient to establish a differential diagnosis. Besides, unless 
brustseuche is complicated with serious pneumonia, or with 
pleurisy, the recovery is much more rapid than in scalma. 
In a word, to recognize any of the infectious diseases of the 
horse, it must be borne in mind that it is better to depend more 
upon its mode of origin than upon the symptoms which charac¬ 
terize it. To the practitioner who admits this principle, the word 
“ influenza ” will always remain a pathological chaos. 
Treatment .—The causes of scalma being yet but imperfectly 
understood, it is by no means an easy matter to devise the treat¬ 
ment most likely to check its progress in its early stages, and we 
must be content with the application of such hygienic treatment 
as appears to be adapted to the condition of the patient, and 
likely to prevent threatening complications. Choice and appetiz¬ 
ing food, tonics and stimulants ; dry or moist stimulating fric¬ 
tions; warm covering, and, in case of pleurisy or hydrothorax, 
revulsives on the chest; or paracentesis—all or any of these 
expedients are in order, according to the peculiar features of the 
case in hand. As prophylactic measures, we must resort to isola¬ 
tion of the sick ones, and the disinfection of the stables by white¬ 
washing the walls, with the scrubbing of the floor, the halls and 
all the accessories that may have been in contact with the con¬ 
taminated animals. 
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CLEANING OUT THE UTERUS AFTER PARTURITION BY THE USE 
OF VERATRINE. 
By M. Cagny. 
Profiting bv his observations of the effect of certain alkaloids 
in increasing the contractile tendency of the white muscles, it 
occurred to Mr. Cagny to utilize these effects by employing the 
same agents for the purpose of exciting the contractions of the 
