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No. 31. Nitrate of potass (saltpeter) 2 oi. 



Water 1 pt. 



Glycerine 4 oz. 



Every time the solution was applied, the parts were dusted with 

 pulverized charcoal. This charcoal, completely covering the 

 abraded parts, and being; a good antiseptic, had an excellent effott 

 in excluding atnios])heric air, and in correcting feted odor. I 

 Jk-Jministered, as an alterative, to correct the morbid habit, 



No. 32. Iodide of potass 20 gr. 



Sulphur 4 dr. 



Powdered sassafras bark 2 dr. 



Gentian > 1 dr. 



These were mixed in food, and the same quantity was given 

 during a period of four days, and the dressings were also contin- 

 ued. On the fifth day the animal had very much improved, stood 

 fair on the foot, and seemed to sutler but very little pain. The 

 limb was somewhat swollen, partly from want of use, and other- 

 wise from slight effusion into the cellular tissue. I iliscontinued 

 the medicine, and ordered the following mixture, to be applied 

 twice daily: 



No. 33. Pyroliirncous acid I , 



Coal oil {equal parts. 



After each apj)lieation the charcoal was reap2)lied. 



The following case serves to illustrate that the virus of grease 

 can be transmitted from hor.se to man : 



Transmission of (he Virus of Grease from the Horse to Man.^ 

 I)rs. Maunoury and Pic^HOThave j<nblished an interesting seriea 

 of experiments, tending lo prove the identity of grea.se and cow- 

 pox. This doctrine, which was always maintained by Jenneb, 

 has received confirmation from the observations of Lci , Godixe, 

 and otlicrs. The following is a summary of the facts, related by 

 Dre, Maunoury and Pichot: 



" Francis Barthelemy B , aged twenty-eighty of lymphatic 



temperament, a farrier, presented him.self to Dr. Pichot on th<» 

 5th of Mai oh, 185fi. Pie had not been vaccinated. On the backs 

 of his hands, which were red and swollen, were several confluent 

 opaline pustules, depressed in their center, and having all the 

 appearance of vaccine pustules of the eight or ninth day. The 

 inflanni-ation with which the pustules were surrounded had ap- 



