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more tried in all cases where a powerful local sedative is 
required. 
One can easily understand how chloroform, applied upon 
a painful joint, or on the abdomen in colic, should give 
relief ; but, on general principles, it is less easy to see how 
ulcerations should be benefited by it, except it were by a 
stimulating action. This stimulating power of chloroform, 
or capability of changing the character of an ulcerated sur- 
face, was lately put to the test by Mr. Hancock, at this 
hospital, in a case of a phagedaenic chancre situated in the 
vestibule of a woman about thirty years of age. 
The patient was admitted under the care of Mr. Hancock, 
January 14, 1853, and, as there was much debility and 
exhaustion, besides the syphilitic ulceration, Mr. Hancock 
prescribed bark and nitric acid, with soothing applications to 
the ulcerated parts. When, however, the chancre began to 
assume a phagedaenic character, the promptest means were 
employed to arrest the destructive ulceration. Among these, 
Mr. Hancock used chloroform, as he had found, from 
previous experience, that even diluted with water it had a 
decidedly beneficial influence on phagedaenic ulcers. The 
chloroform was here used in an undiluted form, and a few 
applications were sufficient to stay the phagedaenic tendency 
of the ulcer. The pain was rather severe, but not so much 
so as when pure nitric acid is employed ; and it was found 
that chloroform, though less destructive, had just as much, 
if not more, power in arresting phagedaenic action than nitric 
acid. The chancre has now assumed a healthier character, 
and is rapidly progressing towards cicatrisation. 
Mr. Hancock, in commenting upon this case, took occasion 
to remark that he had lately treated cases of phagedaenic 
ulceration which had resisted applications both of opium and 
nitric acid ; recourse w as then had to chloroform, and w ith 
the happiest result. — Med. Circular ; Feb . 16 . 
*** What effect would this agent have in canker ? 
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Bristol Quarter Sessions. 
SMART V. MAUNDER. 
This was an action brought to recover the value of ahorse, 
alleged to have died in consequence of the neglect and 
unskilful treatment of the defendant. Mr. Prideaux appeared 
for the plaintiff, and Mr. Stone for the defendant. 
