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where the eyes were blinded, and less, on the other hand, in animals in 
which the respiration was moderately disturbed by the tightening of a cord 
around the neck, and also in animals only slightly narcotized by morphine. 
In injections of an ichorous fluid, the feverish increase of temperature 
produced was lessened by the swinging, and indeed, by repeated swinging, 
brought to a stop. 
Influence of Dr. Wright's Morphia Compounds on the Animal Body . — 
Some experiments on this subject were carried out by Dr. Reginald Stocker, 
Pathologist to St. Mary’s Hospital, and are of interest. He says that doses 
of 1 decigramme of the compound C 68 H 81 I N 4 O 10 , 4HI from codeia, and 
of the similar compound from morphia, were given to an adult terrier by 
the mouth without producing any perceptible effect whatever ; when the 
dose was increased to 3 decigrammes, in each case repeated defsecation in 
the course of a few hours was produced, the stools being more loose than 
ordinarily and frequently of a dark greenish colour ; no other symptom was 
noticeable, and no appreciable difference in the action of the two compounds 
was perceptible. Doses of 5 decigrammes of the compound C 68 H 82 I 2 
N 4 O 10 , 4HI from each of these sources were given to the same dog by the 
mouth, with the result of producing similar repeated defaecation in the 
course of two or three hours; the sole difference discernible between these 
and the former experiments being that the effect was produced somewhat 
sooner and was of longer continuance in the latter cases, a result probably 
produced solely by the larger dose. No material differences were observed 
between the codeia and morphia derivative. The same dog was employed 
throughout, two or three days being allowed to intervene between each 
experiment, so that the animal had recovered from the effects of a former 
dose before the administration of another. — Proceedings of the Royal Society , 
for April, 1872. 
Gastric Juice and Pepsin applied to Wounds. — The li New York Medical 
Journal ” states that there have been performed recently a number of ex- 
periments with the above fluids, applied as follows : the gastric juiee of 
dogs was pencilled, at short intervals daily, fifteen to twenty times upon 
the wounded surface, or small pledgets of cotton were applied, and upon 
them a second larger layer of wadding dipped in a very dilute solution of 
muriatic acid. Several experiments were made, especially upon chancres, 
upon soft chancres in particular. After five to eleven days, commencing 
cicatrization followed as a rule. The remedy is chiefly indicated in soft 
chancre, in diphtheria, phagedsena, and nosocomial gangrene. 
A Curious Memento of Jenner. — A very interesting memento of the 
discoverer of vaccination has recently been presented to the Royal College 
of Physicians by Sir John William Fisher. It consists of a cow’s horn, 
beautifully polished, presented to Sir J. W. Fisher, in the year 1813, by Dr. 
Jenner, and polished by himself. The gift was made in grateful acknow- 
ledgement of services rendered to Jenner’s sick children by Mr. Fisher, 
then a medical assistant in Soho. The horn is now mounted in silver, and 
bears an appropriate inscription, stating the circumstances under which it 
was presented to the college. Dr. Burrows, the President, in asking the 
acceptance of the horn, stated that it was probable — though there was no 
record of the fact— that the horn had been taken from one of Dr. Jenner’s 
favourite cows on which he made his experiments on vaccination. 
