ABSTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
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ABSTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
By A. Liautard, M. D. V. S. 
LESIONS OF THE BRAIN AND OF THE CARDIAL GANGLIONS IN 
RABIES. 
A woman of thirty-two years, had her lip bitten by a dog, on the 
9th of July, 1875, and she died on the 23d of September, after 2 days 
and half, from the eruption of the disease. On examining the nervous 
centres the following lesions were found: some of the cells of the me¬ 
dulla oblongata were cloudy, and their outlines uncertain. In the inter¬ 
stitial tissue of the cerebrum, great quantities of white corpuscules in 
the perivascular sheaths or in their neighborhood. Some of these corpus¬ 
cules were situated in the pericellular spaces, and even in the protoplasm 
of the cells. An interesting lesion consisted in the existence of a shying 
substance, strongly refracting, collected, principally, in the perivascular 
spaces, and also in the superficial layers of the cerebral hemispheres. 
This substance was, here and there, deposited round the blood vessels 
in such quantity that these seemed to be strangulated or obliterated. In 
other places, it seemed to be regularly laid round the blood vessels so 
as to represent an epithelium. Resisting to the action of coloring sub¬ 
stances, it remains insoluble in acids and alkalines. 
In the ganglions of the heart there was thickening of the endothe¬ 
lium lining the sheaths of the nervous cells ; and inside of the sheaths 
and in the interstitial tissue round elements of the size of a white glob¬ 
ule. The nervous cells were cloudy, an appearance which concealed the 
nuclei more or less. In every part the nervous cells did not fill their 
respective sheaths, but had an empty space between them. (Annales 
de Bruxelles). 
TRICHINIA SPIRALIS OBSERVED ON A DOG. 
The animal was a young dog, 10 months old, picked up in the 
streets of Turin, and kept for experiment. He accidentally died in 
September. 
On examination of the muscles of the tongue and of the posterior 
region of the thigh, a large number of trichiniae encysted amongst the 
muscular fibres were found. 
