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In 11 herds, to 209 calves a preventive preparation, Skiabaryum-Spofa, was applied in a dose of medium heaped soup spoon once a day for six days. Compared with the control group of 202 calves, morbidity in the experimental group was lower by 20.7 p. c. The difference was statistically conclusive (P = 0.01). In the case of therapeutic application, the same preparation in a dose of two medium heaped soup spoons twice a day cured 95.2 p. c. of the 209 calves on the average within 3.2 days. Mortality of the number of examined calves amounted to 1.5 p.c. Prevention by means of the Skiabaryum-Spofa preparation was more economic compared with the control group without any prevention.

The results of treatment for volvulus of the colon during 13 years in a community hospital are analysed, It is concluded that sigmoid volvulus should be treated with proctoscopic examination and insertion of a rectal tube, unless signs of gangreana or peritonitis are present. In patients without accompanying sever diseases, elective resection should be performed later. Repeated tube decompressions should be attempted in patients with recurrence and high operative risk. Unsuccessful tube decompressions or signs of a non-viable colon should be followed by emergence laparotomy and, probably, resection of the sigmoid colon whether gangraena is present or not. Volvulus of the cecum should be treated with operative reduction and pexia or cecostomy, unless gangreana necessitating a hemicolectomy is present.