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there for a few days, when it will be found tliat the greater 

 portion of the gangrenous matter will have been separated by the 

 maggots from the sound flesh, and can be removed v.ith a pincers." 

 When this is done, the maggots can be expelled with turpentine 

 and a dressing kept on till the wound be healed up. 



Dr. Willems says, with respect to this part of the subject, that 

 " the animals inoculated ought to be looked after carefully for from 

 the 5th or Gth day after the operation ; and immediately a swelling 

 is observed surrounding the spot operated on, make in it a long 

 and deep incision, causing the blood to flow freely, and exciting 

 the sore to suppurate, by introducing a tow plaster of some 

 irritating substance, such as black soap or blistering ointment. 

 Mons. Mazure, Veterinary Surgeon at Valenciennes, introduces - 

 deeply into the sore an iron heated to a white heat. 



" Immediately the end of the tail is observed to mortify, cut it 

 off" at the sound part, and this is the surest way of stopping tlie 

 spread of the gangrene. 



" Such are the observations and practical suggestions — the 

 results of long experience — which we confidently oifer to those 

 who study inoculation for pleuro-pneumonia. In following them, 

 they will avoid the serious accidents often resulting from the mode 

 of inoculation itself, and which in reality should only be attri- 

 buted to the ignorance and inexperience of the operator." 



In inoculating, care should be taken that none of the virus gets 

 into wounds or scratches in the operator's hands or arms, as 

 threatening and rather dangei'ous results have sometimes followed 

 where the virus was allowed to remain on wounds for any length 

 of time. 



8. — Othee Teeatmext than Inoculation. 



"With respect to the many sorts of treatment tried for the cure 

 of pleuro-pneumonia without success, and the thousand and one 

 specifics said to have been discovered for the purpose, but which 

 all have failed. Dr. Willems says .- — " An innumerable host of 

 means, both interior and exterior, to combat pleuro-pneumonia, 

 have been puffed up and used, such as tartar-emetic, nitre, 

 camphor, sulphate of iron, purgatives, bleeding, blistering, setons, 

 &c., &c. ; but they have all terminated, so to speak, with negative 

 results." 



