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affection was much less threatening, the patients have sunk under 
the constitutional disturbance. 
Treatment . — Our author very distinctly says, that in scarcely 
any case did moist applications answer well. Poultices usually 
increased the swelling of the parts ; while dry herbs in a bag ap- 
peared to agree much better. We have already said that, if the 
infected spot be excised or destroyed with caustic potash sufficiently 
early, the future mischief may very generally be prevented. When 
the gangrenous process has been fairly established, it is almost 
always proper that one or two deep incisions should be made — as 
in the treatment of ordinary spontaneous anthrax — in order to give 
issue to the purulent matter and sloughy cellular texture under- 
neath, and thus obviate the formation of sinuses in the neighbour- 
hood. “ Since I have known,” says Dr. Muller, “ the utility of 
chlorine ( chlore ) against the effects of the bites of serpents, I have 
tried it in severe cases of carbuncle, and always with good 
effect. In some of the worst cases that I have seen, I have 
trusted to the use of chlorine, after an emetic (which he generally 
administers at the commencement of the treatment), and have had 
ample cause to be well satisfied. The dose which I usually give 
is from half a drachm to a drachm every hour or two, either alone 
or mixed with water or other vehicle. As an external application I 
employ an an ounce of the chloruret of lime with four or six ounces 
of chamomile flowers, introduced into a bag, which need not be 
heated when applied : it usually retains its virtues for two or three 
days, as the odour will testify. 
I do not propose these remedies as specifics; far from it. All 
that I say is, that they have proved more useful in my practice 
than any others which I have ever employed. 
Annates de la Chirurgie. 
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Knackers’ Yards. 
We are glad to learn that the notice taken by some of the public 
journals of the cruelties practised in the different knackers’ yards 
in and around the metropolis has produced a gratifying change. 
The Commissioners of Police, we hear, promptly ordered the super- 
intendents to inquire and report specially on the subject. The 
result is, that horses sold for slaughter are much better treated than 
heretofore ; that hay and good water are now supplied to them ; 
