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it his duty some time ago to call the attention of practitioners to 
this cutaneous disease. 
The therapeutics of diseases of the lungs and pleurae have been 
carefully studied by Messrs. Bouley and Prudhomme. This dis- 
ease, treated by bleeding, external revulsives, and the internal 
administration of various medicinal agents, among which the emetic 
ranks highest, have for the most part terminated favourably. The 
results of the experiments made on the effects of the tartarized anti- 
mony, considered as a contra-stimulant, have been from time to time 
published. 
In two animals that died of chronic pleurisy these gentlemen 
met with enormous collections of purulent matter perfectly encysted, 
and having no communication whatever with the pleural bags. 
They were situated behind the pericardium, to which they closely 
adhered. 
There is an opinion prevalent among medical men, and which 
every day gains more ground, namely, that iodine and its various 
preparations will cure arthrites hydarthroses, and even old hydro- 
thorax. Messrs. Bouley and Prudhomme have made several 
experiments with a view to ascertain the truth of this, but without 
success, by injecting solutions of iodine into the interior of the 
pleurce and also of those synovial sheaths which were abnormally 
dilated. A mode of treatment which they have found successful in 
cases of synovial tumours of various kinds, is that of puncturing 
the diseased synovial sheath with a very small sharp-edged instru- 
ment, and thus causing the evacuation of the fluid therein contained, 
and then applying some irritating external application to the skin, 
as blister-ointment, pitch mixed with cantharides, &c. 
That disease generally recognised under the comprehensive term 
of strangles has been, this year, in by far the greater number of 
animals attacked by it, attended with a cutaneous eruption very 
much resembling exanthemata. This eruption has manifestly a 
remarkable periodicity ; for instance, it will disappear rapidly 
under the influence of the most simple treatment, and then re- 
appear worse than ever, without the slightest apparent cause. 
It has terminated in all the animals by an oedematous enlargement 
of the limbs and lower parts of the body. 
Several curious cases of colic have been brought to the hospital, 
some occasioned by strangulations of the small and large intestines, 
and others by clots or accumulations of hard, dry, alimentary 
matter remaining too long in the colon, or, what is most extra- 
ordinary, in the csecum. These stercoral clots have produced 
rupture of the intestine, in consequence of the permanent and ener- 
getic contractions of its fleshy membrane on these resisting bodies. 
