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EXTKACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
The rope is cut, and the animal assisted in getting up. She had a 
vertebro-cervical sprain. 
She presented a large convexity on the left side, the tumor was 
in the middle of the neck, hard and especially very painful. The 
head was enormous, infiltrated, the left eye tumified, the upper eye¬ 
lid the seat of a deep wound, the left ear excoriated, the head 
so heavy that it is carried low down. Previous to this accident 
the mare was very quiet, and now she is very ugly and dangerous 
to approach. 
The treatment consisted in bleeding, cold douches on the neck 
all the time, except during meals. Low diet and taxation. 
Improvement the next day—the aedema of the head has some¬ 
what diminished—the neck still largely swollen. Same treat¬ 
ment. 
The second day still greater improvement—the convexity of 
the neck had diminished, the head had better appearance and was 
carried much higher. Same application. 
Five days after the accident, the convexity of the neck has 
disappeared, and three days later the animal was able to resume 
work .—A rchives Veterinaires. 
IDENTITY OF THE ACUTE EXPERIMENTAL SEPTICAEMIA AND 
CHICKEN CHOLERA. 
By M. Toussaint. 
About 250 observations allowed Mr. Toussaint to say that 
chicken cholera is nothing else than acute septicaemia, contracted 
spontaneously; to take the disease it is necessary that these ani¬ 
mals have access to putrified substances. In septicaemic blood, 
and in the septic virus, which kills rabbits in ten or twenty hours, 
Mr. Toussaint has found a microbe similar to the one discovered 
in chicken cholera. By the ingestion of blood of septicaemic sub¬ 
stances he has reproduced the symptoms and lesions of cholera in 
chicken. Mr. Toussaint has found in the putrified blood of car- 
bunculous animals, bacteridies and also the septic microbe; the 
