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twice or tlirice a-day ; or it may be advantageously introduced 

 into the copaiba ball. An ordinary gleet ball is tbis — 



R Pulv. Cantharid., gr. iij ; 



Fariuae Lini vel Avenae, Jjss ; 



Balsam. Copaib., q. s. 

 Ut fiat Bol. bis terve die sumend. 



Both cubebs and Cayenne peppers possess stimulant and 

 styptic powers upon the mucous membranes : the former may 

 be exhibited in ounce doses, mingled with copaiba ; the lat- 

 ter in half-ounce doses, with the same, or with common Venice 

 turpentine. Both the sulphate of copper and muriate of 

 barytes have proved useful in these cases : the first stands 

 handed down to us by our professional ancestors as one of 

 the remedies they employed in various disorders in preference 

 to most others ; the other I can speak of from my own expe- 

 rience. Whether either of them possesses any anti-glan- 

 derian virtue, will be matter for future inquiry : at present I 

 shall only say I believe that this preparation of copper is one 

 of the most efficacious medicaments we have in regard to some 

 anomalous affections of the air-passages; and that, as such, it 

 will, on occasions, be our duty to employ it. I believe its 

 operation to be greater in small and divided doses, long con- 

 tinued, than in large doses ; and that it is better, both for 

 the stomach and for its introduction into the system, that it 

 should be exhibited in the form of solution. 



Curative treatment. — For cases found to resist such 

 obvious measures as I have been recommending, I have a 

 plan of treatment to advise which in my hands has in 

 two remarkable instances (published in the ' Veterinarian' for 

 1846-7, vols, xix and xx), been attended with that success, if 

 not absolute cure, which is well worthy of a repetition of trials. 

 Being provided with a small trephine or circular saw — the 

 one I have had made for the purpose incises a piece about 

 the size of a sixpence. I operate upon the frontal bone 

 with a view of making an aperture into the frontal sinus, as 

 near as is safe to the medium line of the cranium. The saw- 

 ing operation must be performed gradually and with moderate 

 pressure upon the saw, since violence might thrust the incised 



