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ease be unaccompanied with inflammation of the brain, which is 

 rarely the case, we know of no special means of treating it other 

 than those recommended for inflammation of the brain. A 

 French writer, however, informs us that acute arachnoiditis is 

 occasioned by loss of continuity, or lesion of that membrane, from 

 which result staggers and water on the brain. 



REMARKS ON AND EXPLANATION OF VAPOR BATH. 



The following cut, representing a horse in a vapor bath, will 

 appear somewhat novel to Americans, as we are not aware that 

 any thing of the kind has ever been got up in this country. 

 Indeed, Mr. Percivall, from whose work the illustration and ex- 

 planations have been transcribed, expresses his surprise at the 

 introduction of this apparatus, even at so early a day as the 

 present, in a country too where improvements are continually 

 progressing. We hope that ere long this useful article may be 

 extensively used in this country, for every practitioner must 

 have occasionally felt the need of it. 



EXPLANATION. 



a represents a boiler originally erected for the purpose of supplying the 

 infirmary -with hot water ; c is the main pipe issuing from the top of the boiler, 

 receiving the steam, and conducting it, when not required for other purposes, 

 into either a flue or the open air at b ; e and / are branch pipes from the main 

 one (c), f being that which conducts the steam into a worm (A), winding 

 through a condensing trough (g) ; e the branch pipe which conducts the steam 

 (prevented by stop-cock from going in the other direction) into the bath : 

 the place of admission (??) being on one side, close to the floor, at a point inter- 

 mediate between the horse's fore and hind feet while standing in the bath, with 

 his head outside ; m is the bath, being a horse box, such as is used for embark- 

 ing horses on board of ship, with the addition of a lining of flannel, a roofing 

 of hoops and tilting, and curtains over the doors, front and back, to prevent 

 the escape of steam. The box, being placed upon wheels, serves, besides being 

 used as a bath, for the transport of' sick or lame horses; and, having doors at 

 both ends, and a movable platform for the horse to walk in upon, is in general 

 entered without any great deal of unwillingness. 



