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morning with the drench. From 3i. to 5ijss. of iron, reduced by 

 hydrogen, alternated with from fifteen to thirty grains of the 

 white oxide of arsenic, were also given, and food of the most 

 substantial kind was allowed. 



As the patients under the charge of M. Trelut increased, he 

 found that a sufficient quantity of fibrin could not be obtained 

 in the manner described. He then substituted for the pure 

 fibrin of the blood of cattle, cooked horse flesh, very finely 

 divided, and administered in the water which had served to 

 cook it. When the bouillon was finished the flesh was mixed 

 with honey and given as a electuary. Were it not important to 

 utilise the soup, says M. Trelut, the flesh could always be given 

 most conveniently in the latter manner. 



The flesh was administered in doses of from 100 to 150 

 grammes. 



When paralysis set in, cantharidine linunents, followed by 

 mustard poultices, were applied to the abdomen ; and as soon as 

 an abundant effusion had been established, the pointed firing-iron 

 was applied, penetrating as deeply as possible, in order to fix 

 the engorgement. After the establishment of this engorgement 

 the paralysis became gradually ameliorated, and in twenty-four 

 hours, the animal, which was helplessly stretched upon its litter, 

 was able to regain its feet without assistance. 



The internal treatment requires to be continued at least forty- 

 five and at most 145 days, and on an average from two to three 

 months. 



By this treatment M. Trelut was successful in sixteen cases 

 (in which the patients were seriously affected) out of seventeen. 

 The seventeenth was a mare which aborted, and the lesions of 

 metro-peritonitis found at the autopsy would have been suffi- 

 cient to account for her death. — {Mcmoire sur la Maladie dite du 

 Colt, par M. Teelut, Becueil de Medicine Veterinaire, Janvier 

 1865.) 



Local treatment. — In stallions, during the first stage, or that in 

 which the disease is confined to the genital organs, it was stated 

 that good results had been obtained from castration ; it is now 

 proved that castration always aggravates the disease, and some- 

 times induces a fatal result. 



In the mare, mucilaginous injections, followed, later on, by mild 

 antiseptics, astringents, and still later, if necessary, by the sul- 



