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BEAR UPON HORSEBACK. 
Dr. Murphy said, that Mr. Marshall and Mr. Ellis had 
done great service by enabling the cautery to be used in a 
form divested of terror to the patient. The terrible appear- 
ance of the actual cautery had given rise to the adoption of 
chemical means ; but these had the inconvenience of spread- 
ing beyond the part intended to be acted on ; whereas the 
power of limiting the action was an advantage possessed by 
the actual cautery. The employment of a porcelain cylinder 
for increasing the heated surface was an improvement due to 
Mr. Ellis. 
Mr. Dendy suggested that Drs. Routh and Crisp, who had 
witnessed the employment of the actual cautery in cases of 
uterine disease by M. Jobert de Lamballe, should give an oc- 
count of the cases in which he used it. 
Dr. Routh said, that M. Jobert applied the cautery in 
nearly all those cases in which caustic was used by Dr. 
Henry Bennett; viz., in hypertrophy of the cervix, in indu- 
ration with so-called ulceration, and in cancer. 
Mr. Richardson had been informed that Dr. Simpson of 
Edinburgh had used potassium as a cauterising agent. 
Mr. Streeter inquired why, if cancer of the uterus is treated 
with at least apparent success by cauterisation, the same re- 
medy could not be applied to cancer in other parts of the 
body ? He believed that many cases of uterine disease had 
been brought into a hard, suspicious-looking state, by the 
use of irritant injections ; whereas warm baths, hyoscyamus, 
and constitutional treatment, might have cured them. — 
Association Med. Jour. } QOth May , 1853. 
THE BEAR UPON HORSEBACK. 
Mr. Buckland had made a promise that Tig should pay a 
visit to a village about six miles distant, and determined that 
he should proceed thither on horseback. As the horse shied 
whenever the bear came near him, there was some difficulty 
in getting him mounted ; but at last his master managed to 
pull him up by the chain while the horse w as held quiet. 
Tig at first took up his position in front, but soon walked 
round and stood up on his hind legs, resting his fore paw s on 
his master’s shoulders. To him this w 7 as exceedingly plea- 
sant, but not so to the horse, wffio not being accustomed to 
carry tw 7 o, and feeling Tig’s claw 7 s, kicked and plunged to rid 
himself of the extra passenger. Tig held on like grim death, 
and stuck in his claws most successfully ; for in spite of all 
the efforts of the horse he w as not thrown. In this way the 
journey was performed, the country folks opening their eyes 
at the apparition . — Zoological Anecdotes. 
