226 COMMISSION OF IN QUIP* Y RESPECTING EPIZOOTICS. 
the Gazette ITebdomadaire , by Dr. Bourguignon, in which is 
a confirmation of the value of the treatment of itch, in 
Belgium, by sulphur, combined with lime in a liquid form. 
The remedy is prepared by boiling one part of quick lime, 
with two parts of sublimed sulphur, in ten parts of water, 
until the two former are perfectly united. During the boiling 
it must be constantly stirred with a piece of wood, and, when 
the sulphur and lime have combined, the fluid is to be 
decanted and kept in a well-stoppered bottle. A pint of the 
liquid is sufficient for the cure of several cases. It is suffi- 
cient to wash the body well with warm water, and then to 
rub the liquid into the skin for half an hour. As the fluid 
evaporates, a layer of sulphur is left upon the skin. During 
the half-hour the acarus is killed, and the patient is cured. 
It is only needful then to wash the body well, and to use 
clean clothes. In Belgium the treatment is introduced by 
first rubbing the body for half an hour with black soap, but 
this does not appear to be necessary. The only essential act 
is that of the careful application of the fluid sulphur. The 
lime is of no importance in the treatment, except to render 
the sulphur soluble, and such would probably be the case if 
potass or soda were employed. The chief point in the plan 
thus employed, which is an improvement upon the mode of 
application of sulphur in substance with lard, is the more 
ready absorption of the remedy, and consequently the more 
certain and quick destruction of the insect, by using sulphur 
in a fluid form. In so disgusting a disease, it must be of 
great moment to be able to cure it in half an hour . — Medical 
Times. 
APPOINTMENT OP A COMMISSION OP INQUIRY RESPECTING 
EPIZOOTICS IN PRANCE. 
The Minister of Agriculture has reorganized the Com- 
mission on Pleuro-pneumonia, which will, however, for the 
future be styled the Epizootic Commission. 
The following gentlemen are named as its members : 
President , M. de Mornay, Principal of the Agricultural 
Department. 
Yvart, Inspector-General of the Veterinary Schools and 
Imperial Cattle Establishments. 
Boitel, Inspector-General of Agriculture. 
Renault, Director of the Imperial Veterinary School at 
Alfort. 
Delafond, Magne, and Bouley, Professors at the Alfort 
School. 
