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Facts and Observations. 
TREATMENT OE BROKEN KNEES. 
Mr. J. Brown, M.R.C.V.S. London, writes that he has 
found the following powder very efficacious in the healing 
of wounds of the knee of the horse, caused by falling : 
Jc Hydrarg. Bichloride 5j ; 
Pulv. Zinci Sulpli., 
Pulv. Alumin., 
Bol. Armen., aa ^j. M, 
“I employ,” he says, ee no bandages nor any kind of com- 
press over the wound, as I consider that these rather retard 
than otherwise the healing process, by impeding the circula- 
tion ; not to say anything of the confined pus, which is 
often of a fetid character, and which they keep for days in 
contact with the part. By the treatment I advocate, an 
eschar is soon produced on the surface of the wound, and 
under it the healing process quickly goes on. 
Perhaps I cannot do better than illustrate what I mean 
by narrating very concisely the following case : 
In the beginning of October of the present year, a horse 
belonging to a town carman, fell and broke both his knees. 
The off-knee was the most lacerated. After cleansing the 
wounds thoroughly from all extraneous matter, such as dirt 
or gravel, 1 sprinkled the parts over with the powder, or- 
dered that he should be placed in a loose box, and put on a 
mash diet. On the following day an aperient was given. 
By this treatment an eschar was soon produced on the 
surface of the wound, and the suppurative process w r ent 
steadily on. The wound of the off-knee required a frequent 
removal of the pus, and this I gently squeezed out with a 
sponge, without displacing the eschar. The wounds very soon 
healed, leaving a much less cicatrix than is usual in such cases. 
I believe that this simple treatment, if persevered in, would 
cut short many a long and tedious case of this kind. 
REMEDY EOR HYDROPHOBIA. 
At the last meeting of the Academy of Sciences, M. 
Guerin-Meneville, sent in a letter on the Cetonia Aurata , or 
rose-beetle, which for some time past has engrossed the at- . 
tention of naturalists, as a remedy for hydrophobia. M. 
Meneville stated, from personal experience, that in the go- 
