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have something more than mere opinion to offer on this particular 
point ; but I now throw out the suggestion for the consideration of 
your readers. 
*** With the above paper Mr. Parkins has sent us the works 
to which in it he refers : one, published in 1836, “ On the Uses 
of Carbonic Acid Gas in the Diseases of Tropical Climates the 
other, published in 1846, “ On the Antidotal Treatment of the 
Epidemic Cholera,” the antidote still being “ carbon.” The ac- 
counts given in these pamphlets of cholera — and of cholera in its 
worst form, cholera asphyxia — also of the premonitory diarrhoea, 
and of obstinate or malignant dysentery, and the success attendant 
on the exhibition of carbonic acid gas in these terribly fatal dis- 
eases in man, are not only of a nature to entice the veterinarian to 
make trial of a similar line of practice in his treatment of the de- 
structive epidemics which have of late proved so prevalent among 
our cattle; but at the same time, so far as analogy can be appealed 
to, are such as to afford him, cceteris paribus, some prospects of 
success. We do not apprehend carbon to be a remedy suited to 
the neutralization of the virus of glanders and farcy ; at the same 
time, we are not going to prejudge the question. On this subject 
we shall be happy to hear from Mr. Parkins again. — Ed. Vet. 
INTESTINAL ANASARCA, WITH ASCITES. 
By W. A. Cartwright, M.R.C.V.S . , Whitchurch, Salop. 
On the 29th July, 1846, a large cart horse was sent to me, be- 
longing to a farmer a few miles from here, that had been occa- 
sionally subject to bleed slightly from the right nostril for some 
short time past ; and on the 25th inst. he was very much swelled 
underneath the throat and jaws, quite full up, and of an oede- 
matous character ; but there was no sore throat nor any other 
symptom of illness. By fomentations this left him. 
Symptoms . — There is a slight coagulum of blood in the right 
nostril, but I am told none ever issues from the other : never 
coughs. I cannot detect any disease in the nostril or windpipe. 
As far as his general appearance goes, there seems little amiss 
with him, and he is in good condition, sleek in his coat, and feeds 
well. Gave 3iv of aloes, and took about five quarts of blood from 
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