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ON GLYCERINE. 
parts glycerine, and to which one part of iodine is to be 
added, as an application in several skin and other affections. 
He says its efficacy is remarkable in non-vascular goitre, 
scrofulous ulcers, syphilitic ulcerated surfaces, and lupus. 
It also acts as a caustic. 
This solution has the advantage over alcoholic ones of not 
drying, therefore the absorption of the iodine continues 
for a long time. To use it, it must be spread over the dis- 
eased parts, and covered with thin gutta percha, to prevent 
the evaporation of the iodine. "This is to be left untouched 
for twenty-fours hours, and the degree of action induced, 
regulates its further application, or otherwise. Diseased sur- 
faces by its action become paler than before, the surrounding 
skin being browned. On ulcers no trace of iodine will be 
found two hours after its application. 
With considerable success glycerine has been given to the 
horse in cases of emaciation and debility instead of cod-liver 
oil; having over it this considerable advantage, the animal 
will partake of it freely in his water, provided it be tolerably 
pure. 
As the purer the article the more expensive it is, so some 
may on this account raise an objection to its use in veteri- 
nary practice ; but only let there be a demand for it, and we 
doubt not that effective and facile means will be quickly 
adopted so as to render it sufficiently pure for all the required 
purposes of the veterinary surgeon, and that too at a mode- 
rate cost ; indeed, we incline to the opinion that this has been 
already done by Messrs. Price and Co. 
Dr. Lindsay states, in an article entitled ‘ Experimental 
Notes on Glycerine,’ published in the ‘Edinburgh Medical 
Journal/ that with a view to — 
“ The discovery of the existence and extent of the fattening effects of 
glycerine on the animal body — if such there be — I have recently ex- 
perimented on various of the lower animals, such as fowls, rabbits, and 
mice, mixing glycerine with their ordinary food. At the same time, I have 
made comparative or contrastive experiments on the same animals with 
cod-liver oil, and with common food. For instance, a cock of a cross 
Cochin-China breed, was fed on bread-refuse, etc., steeped in glycerine 
(Price’s pure concentrated), and a hen of the same kind, on similar food, 
soaked in cod-liver oil. During the first fortnight of the experiment, the 
former gained fourteen, while the latter only gained seven ounces. 
“ The following table will illustrate concisely the comparative increase of 
weight under ordinary food alone, and in conjunction with glycerine or cod- 
liver oil. The animals were weighed at intervals of about a fortnight, and 
were similarly placed in regard to confinement, etc. : 
