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unscientific, because the cause of death was usually extravasation on 
to the brain. 
Professor Fordie had found the administration of large doses of 
Liquor Ammonise Fort, to be successful when the patient was coma- 
tose and required to be stimulated; the medicine should be intro- 
duced into the rumen by means of the canula ; he did not adopt the 
common practice of diluting the ammonia to any great extent ; he 
simply mixed it with an equal quantity of water, and found that 
the mucous membrane was not corroded, as many supposed, the 
non-corrosion being due to the evaporating action of the ammonia 
as a diffusible stimulant. 
Messrs. Robinson and Robb had found hot water, cloths, and 
the administration of common whiskey, to be suited to their 
practice. 
TETANUS. 
Mr. Barr described a case of tetanus which ended fatally, the 
result of a wound to the occiput, caused by falling over when 
rearing. 
The President thought that this was a very difficult disease to 
treat successfully ; recommended Calabar bean began by giving 
small doses, gradually increasing the doses to as much as twenty 
beans, and found this remedy to answer. 
Mr. Robinson thought quietude and slings were the remedies. 
PURPURA HEMORRHAGICA. 
Mr. Anderson, jun., since the Association’s last meeting, had met 
with a severe case of purpura hsemorrhagica, following common 
catarrh, accompanied by extensive sloughing of the cutaneous 
structures, &c., of the chest, abdomen, and extremities, these parts 
being completely denuded of skin. A large wound existed behind 
the near knee, which discharged very offensive putrid pus ; intense 
pain was evinced on pressure, also attended with very great lame- 
ness. Gave tincture of the perchloride of iron, 30 drops twice per 
diem, whiskey, &c., internally, and applied locally carbolic acid 
liniment, &c. 
The Association thought that the intense lameness was due to 
sloughing into the deeper-seated parts. 
SPLENIC APOPLEXY. 
Professor Williams had lately four horses as patients affected 
with a disease very similar to splenic apoplexy in horned cattle, 
which terminated fatally. He was of opinion that apoplexy of the 
spleen, or that condition of the blood which produced it, was not 
confined solely to cattle. He entered fully into the symptoms, &c., 
and said that he was making a series of investigations, both chemical 
and microscopic, which had led to very interesting results, but these 
were as yet incomplete. 
The Association were greatly indebted to the able way he had 
described the experiments made, and hoped by the next meeting that 
