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tartarized antimony is a noble medicine in the treatment of 
chronic discharges from the lungs, which are not of a specific 
character, or which are not connected with the existence of glan- 
ders. We will content ourselves at present with the simple state- 
ment of a fact of considerable importance in veterinary me- 
dicine. 
Intestinal Affections. 
The acute inflammatory diseases of the intestinal canal are in 
general not very serious. Some of them, nevertheless, are com- 
plicated, during their course, with a comatose state, that some- 
times long continues after the disappearance of the symptoms of 
the primitive disease. Two horses presented the characters of 
“ immobility” at the close of acute inflammation of the intestines. 
Colic. 
We have, during this session, proved the advantage of bleed- 
ing to a considerable extent when the intestinal pain seemed to 
he intense, and was proved to be so by the disordered movements 
of the animal. This practice, long adopted in our hospitals, is 
based on this incontestable fact, that, wherever the intestinal pain 
announces itself by any violent movements, there is one or the other 
of these causes, congestion in some isolated part, or extending 
through the intestinal canal. In this case, whatever may be the 
apparent fulness or emptiness of the intestine, bleeding is indi- 
cated, and will never be hurtful. The effects which it produces 
are sometimes almost marvellous. We have seen some horses a 
prey to absolute madness when suffering under an attack of 
colic, and we have been compelled to put them in the trevis to 
prevent them from seriously injuring themselves by their precipi- 
tate movements when under the operation of bleeding. These 
horses have become perfectly calmed after the loss of twenty or 
five-and-twenty pounds of blood. 
IntestinalUlcerations in tiieHorse(TyphoidFever?) 
In the course of the month of July, a tall entire horse, fit for 
heavy draught, was brought to our hospital. This horse, which, 
in the language of its owner had but one fault, that of being too 
eager in harness, was employed for a considerable period in the 
hard work of dragging stones. It was only three months that 
he had recovered from a disease of the chest which had kept him 
on his litter during fifteen days. 
On his entry into our hospital he was in a state of extraordinary 
prostration of strength. He could scarcely stand, and staggered as 
he walked — he was stiff’ in his loins — his coat was rough, and his 
