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say more; it was possible the discharge from the nostrils, for 
six hours or more, could be stopped, and the disease could 
not be perceived by an ordinary person till it broke away. 
There were two ways of stopping the discharge — 1st, by 
putting tow up the nostrils ; and, secondly, the most usual, 
but cruel method — putting a stringent powder or vitriol up 
the nostrils. Mr. Flintoff said the animal was labouring 
under the chronic form of the disease ; it had laboured under 
it eight or ten months, and the disease was highly contagious 
to both cattle and human beings. Mr. Liddell addressed the 
jury in defence, and called two witnesses with a view to 
prove that the prisoner was not aware that the animal 
laboured under the disease. Mr. Davison, in reply, said the 
prosecution was brought on public grounds. Mr. Scott : If 
the prisoner was committed, he hoped it would be a lesson to 
both him and to others. The Chairman having summed up, 
the Jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of 
Guilty. Mr. A. Liddell, in mitigation of punishment, asked 
the Court to inflict a fine, as the prisoner could not be aware 
of the serious consequences of exhibiting the animal in a 
public Market Place. The Chairman said the Court was of 
opinion that this was a serious offence, and should be 
marked by severe punishment, but as the only case reported 
was provided by a pecuniary penalty, the Court had deter- 
mined that the prisoner should be fined £l 5, and be 
imprisoned until it was paid. Concerning a case that had 
been heard in the Court previously, in which an attorney for 
the prosecution, having a knowledge of a previous con- 
viction against the prisoner, had, on account of the expense 
and trouble involved, neglected to produce such conviction, 
the Chairman intimated that on any future occasion the 
entire costs of the prosecution would be disallowed. 
CHLOROFORM IN PHAGEDENIC ULCERS. 
Since chloroform began to be used as an anaesthetic agent, 
the minds of many practitioners have been bent upon ex- 
tending the therapeutical applications of this agent. It has 
been inhaled in epilepsy, tetanus, and other convulsive 
diseases; it has been taken into the stomach in cases of 
cholera, and has been applied, by M. Aran, of Paris, to joints 
affected with acute rheumatism, and to the abdomen of 
patients suffering from lead colic. M. Aran has found 
chloroform extremely useful in the two last-named disorders, 
and we have no doubt but this compound will be more and 
