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and the child escaped. The donkey died. From the principle that a 
rabid animal can, during the incubative stage of the disease, communi¬ 
cate it though it may present all the appearances of health, the author 
recommends the cauterization after the bite of any carnivorous , no mat¬ 
ter how slight. At the autopsy, lesions of the lumbar and sacral nerves 
were found, viz., plastic organization of serosity increasing the size, and 
changing the coloration of the nerves. These lesions were also found 
in dogs who had died at the last period of the disease. {Archives 
Veter.) 
INTERESTING POST MORTEM. 
A horse died from hemorrhage following rupture of the liver. At the 
autopsy an enormous clot was found in the abdomen ; on the posterior 
face of the liver a laceration near the veina portie; and all round, 
a mass of brownish, very small spots, having in its centre a long, 
filiform, stiff, hard body which proved to be the barbs of barley seed. 
(Archives Veter in.) 
TRANSLATIONS. 
By Dr. Osler, of McGill University and Montreal Veterimary College. 
DIPHTHERIA IN THE CALF. 
Dammann records the history of an exceedingly interesting epi¬ 
demic of this disease in calves—a new affection in these animals, and 
one capable of transmission to man. The author holds that the malig¬ 
nant catarrhal fever of cattle is not to be regarded as diphtheria. 
The disease broke out in the spring of 1875, among the calves in 
the village of Ludwigsburg, and proved fatal in nearly every instance. 
In the spring of 1876, the disease having broken out again, the Inspec¬ 
tor of the place consulted Prof. Dammann on the subject, and he, sus¬ 
pecting its nature, requested that the first animal that died should be 
sent to him for dissection. The opportunity soon arrived by the death 
of a three weeks’ old calf ; when, on examination, it was found that the 
affection was true diphtheria. A thick, grayish-yellow membrane 
extended over the anterior part of the hard palate, and lined the mucous 
membrane in the region of the posterior nares, being prolonged into 
these cavities and their sinuses. A similar membrane covered the inside 
of the cheeks. On removal, the mucous membrane was found to be 
