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favorable position for recovery, by preventing any movement 
of the wounded articulation. The way also in which the 
patient is secured requires attention, in consequence of the 
itching he suffers, and which causes him to bite or rub the af- 
fected part. Cooling diet should also be prescribed, especially 
when the pain is acute. Emollient clysters and aperients 
should likewise be given, as these remedies may prevent com- 
plications of the disease, affecting either the brain or the 
intestines. 
The use of tartar emetic has been advocated. M. Reboul 
has considered this agent as being a powerful remedy in 
effecting a favorable termination in articular wounds.* 
After cicatrization of the wound, the stiffness and diffi- 
culty of the movements of the joints should be treated by 
long continued friction, with Spirits of Camphor, or essential 
oils : Tincture of Cantharides, Liniment of Ammonia, &c. in 
combination or otherwise. If these should be insufficient, the 
actual cautery should be used as a last resource ; but it will 
not always be possible to effect a complete cure in these cases. 
In human surgery, anchylosis is considered as a favorable ter- 
mination • but with us it is a result by no means to be desired. 
In the smaller animals, it maybe even advisable to remove 
by amputation one or more of the phalanges, or even the 
limb, should complications arise from purulent arthritis. 
En resume. The treatment of articular fistulas should, at 
the beginning, consist of the use of astringents ; at a later 
period, a vesicant ought to be had recourse to ; and, finally, if 
this last agent is not sufficient, the Hydrarg. Bichlorid. must 
be used. 
(To be continued.) 
“THE QUESTION OE INOCULATION FOR PLEURO-PNEU- 
MONIA AS BROUGHT BEFORE THE CHAMBER OF REPRE- 
SENTATIVES OF BELGIUM. 
“ At the sitting of the Chamber of Representatives on the 
7 th of December, 1854, M. Vis art, an honorable member, 
whom the agricultural interest reckons amongst its chief 
supporters, in proposing to introduce into the sanitary police 
law, as applicable to domestic animals, a clause for submit- 
ing to inoculation, after M. Willems’ method, any cattle 
which had been in contact with animals affected with epi- 
zootic pleuro-pneumonia, spoke as follows : 
* Reboul, Journal cles Wterinaires du Midi, 1845, pp. 345, 413. 
