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ABSTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
pieces of skin after severe firing, especially when performed in warm 
weather. In the treatment of fistula in withers or of poll-evil, some 
care is to he exercised in the use in cold water, as if there is no doubt 
as to its therapeutic action, it is possible that the effect of constant 
refrigeration in those seasons on a large surface of the skin, would give 
rise to visceral diseases with fatal terminations. 
The mode of application consists in having a tube of India rubber 
varying in size or in diameter and to have the water pouring in sheet 
slowly over the wounds, cool is generally better than cold water. 
(Archives Vet.) 
This mode of treatment we have put in use in a few cases and 
have every reason to be satisfied with it. Ihe last case we applied it 
was in a large grey horse suffering with fistula withers, in which how¬ 
ever but little benefit was obtained by the treatment. 
CHOLESTIRHEMIA. 
Under this title Mr. P. Megnin describes in the Recueil de 
Medecine Veterinaire, an affection of horses due to the presence of 
cholesterine in excess in the blood, a fact which he has been able to 
establish by the miscroscopic examination of the blood of animals who 
had died under peculiar circumstances. The interest attached to the 
history of the disease, which has some similarity with one of our 
American affections as far as its rapidity of development and its fatality 
induces us to reproduce a brief account of Mr. Megnin’s article. The 
observations which are reported are from five animals, all in 
appearance perfectly healthy, in a fat and plethoric condition, died 
suddenly while at work, without presenting any symptoms of diseases; 
all were fat, all were full of life and were real pictures of health and 
all at once, while in harness or under the saddle, were- suddenly seized 
with general tremblings of the whole body, profuse perspiration and 
had died in a few moments, one having presented some symptoms of 
paraplegia for a short time, with a stertorous breathing. 
The post mortem revealed all the organs in perfect normal state, 
“the abnormal and thoracic cavities were healthy; the omentum and 
mesentery contained a thick layer of fat, the kidneys were surrounded 
by a fatty envelope; the liver was firm but marbled with fatty zones 
which made it look yellow; the cranium showed the meninges much 
