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medical treatment." Gaoigee observed variations in the 

 frequency of the pulse and temi^erature during the course of 

 the disease, as Jessen did between the pulse and respira- 

 tions ; also a sudden lowering of temperature with increased 

 frequency of pulse from 120 upwards, a few hours before 

 death. A gradual decrease of temperature until it reaches 

 the normal standard prognosticates recovery.* 



It seems a matter of regret that Dr. Gam gee, who has 

 evinced in all his researches, skill and learning of the highest 

 order, should have felt such utter hopelessness of the efficacy 

 of remedial treatment in posse if not in esse. Otherwise we 

 think he might have gained another laurel to his veteri- 

 nary prowess. Nothing seems to be clearer than this pro- 

 position, that if the pest is to be properly regarded as a 

 zymotic disease whether developing its fatal germs in the 

 blood, on and in which they feed and multiply ; or by an 

 action analogous to ferment, or that chemico - physiological 

 action which Liebig has denominated catalysis, producing 

 abnormal changes in the circulating medium ; before the dis- 

 integration of structures (the principal test of infection in 

 disease) is manifested: or to take a more palpable illustration, 

 to be viewed as poison from a venomous bite, which must be 

 instantly neutralized, or whose absorption and propagation 

 must be arrested without loss of time that life may be saved ; 

 the treatment must be antidotal or destructive of the foreigil 

 germ-life, and attempted before the processes of decomposi- 

 tion in the blood have gained much headway. And to this 

 end the use of the thermometer as afresh proposed by Gamgee 

 is indispensible, But it is unnecessary further to foreshadow 

 the use to which we propose to put this method in the treat- 

 ment we may recommend. 



The microscopic researches of Dr. Brauell, of Dorpat, 

 made in Southern Eussia in 1861, extend, in some respects, 

 the pathological views to be derived from the investigation 

 of lesions heretofore given on the authority of Smart and 

 others. He observed in the glands of the mouth and pha- 

 rynx, new formations of cells simultaneously with (probably 



* Cattle Plagae, pp. 4(M4. 



