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cold aspersions, stimulating drenches (alcohol, coffee, carbonate of 
ammonia) or subcutaneous injections (ether). Burns, cutaneous and 
mucous phlegmasia, paralysis, and ocular accidents are treated accord- 
ing to the rules laid down for the therapeutics of these affections. 
‘Often the affected cutaneous regions affected assume a peculiar aspect. 
Sometimes hair grows no more. (Urbain.) Upon a cow treated by 
Miiller, the burnt region, which extended from the left flank to the tail, 
became covered with a thick epidermic horny-like layer. 
