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SMALL-POX IN SHEEP. 
sible stimulants judiciously selected, the powers of the circulatory 
system, and the functions of the secerning glands. From witnessing 
the action of chloroform on the system during its inhalation, it 
appeared to me highly probable that, administered internally, it 
might answer both those indications, and I, therefore, determined 
on trying it in the first case which should present The result, as 
detailed above, leads me to believe that it will be found, if not 
an antidote to the disease, at least a highly valuable auxiliary in 
its treatment. The rapidity with which it appeared to arrest all 
the symptoms, to control the vomiting and diarrhoea, to subdue the 
spasm, raise the pulse, and restore the temperature of the body, 
filled me with the most sanguine expectations of its value as a re- 
medial agent in cholera, and probably in other diseases of a 
typhoid character. 
The turpentine I added on account of its stimulating and diu- 
retic properties ; the ox-gall, with the view of supplying, as nearly 
as possible, its natural stimulus to the mucous lining of the intes- 
tinal tract; and the calomel, as a stimulus to the liver and salivary 
glands; but, from the very doubtful value of these adjuncts in the 
treatment of cholera, I am inclined to attribute my success in this 
case almost wholly to the action of the chloroform. In conclusion, 
I trust I may venture to express a hope that the profession will 
lose no opportunity of testing its value as a remedial agent in the 
treatment of this fatal disease. 
Medical Times, Aug. 12, 1848. 
Foreign Extracts. 
Of the Clavelisation ( Inoculation for Small-pox ) of Flocks of Sheep 
viewed as a Measure of Sanitary Police. 
By O. Delafond. 
( Third article , continued from page 469.) 
19. SOME persons of the present day are still of opinion, that, in 
the case of the presence of isolated enzootic or epizootic pox, ino- 
culation is not unattended with inconvenience, whether it be prac- 
tised on the grazier’s account, or to serve the interests of agricul- 
ture in general. 
The objections urged against clavelisation (inoculation) are — 
1st. That it inflicts a disease which sheep in good health might. 
