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3. M. Lacoste, V.S. to the depot at Saint Lo, has addressed 
to us a memoir on traumatic tetanus, following castration. It 
is accompanied by the record of eight cases, successfully treated 
by repeated steam-baths, opium being administered to the amount 
of 1| oz. in twenty-four hours, in conjunction with manna and 
narcotic injections. Honourable mention was made of this me- 
moir, and of those of M. de Nanzio. 
4. M. Blavette, V.S. at Bayeux, sent three cases to the so- 
ciety. The first was an account of a circular wound on the left 
hind leg of a filly. Of this wound, which was more than thirty- 
nine inches in length, made by a heavy piece of timber, and com- 
plicated with severe injury of the cervical vertebrae, and a flow 
of synovia from the hock, a complete cure was effected. The 
second was a history of permanent roaring, produced by per- 
foration of the lower part of the nasal septum. The perfora- 
tion was visible on a casual examination of the horse. The third 
was the unsuspected presence of a horse-bean which had embed- 
ded itself in the sole of a horse’s foot, and produced long-conti- 
nued lameness. 
5. M. Drouard, V.S. of Montbard, transmitted four practical 
memoirs. The first, on pleuro-pneumonia in cattle, which had 
prevailed several years as an enzootic in that canton, especially 
in the autumn of 1835. Two hundred animals had been affected 
by it, of which two-fifths had perished. He attributed this, in a 
great measure, to the carelessness of the proprietors, who would 
never believe an animal to be ill until he began to refuse his food ; 
who never made up their minds, until it was too late, to call in 
medical advice, and who then began with charlatans and empi- 
rics. The malady is well described — its causes exposed in detail ; 
and a course of treatment recommended which is almost always 
successful when employed at an early period of the disease. 
The second case is one of bony aneurism of the posterior aorta 
found in a horse that died from distended stomach. M. 
Drouard regards this aneurism as one of the predisposing causes 
of the colic and tympanitis by which the horse had been attacked 
from time to time. We will not examine how far this opinion 
of M. Drouard is well founded ; but we will only observe, that 
we often find ossifications of the large arterial trunks, and even of 
the apex of the heart itself, in cattle sent to the slaughter-house, 
and in old cattle. 
In the third memoir, the author examines the advantage of 
castrating bulls by ligature around the spermatic cord, as com- 
pared with the frequent practice of bistournage ; and he asserts 
that the animals suffer less, that they become better tempered, 
that their flesh is better, that they retain less of their sexual 
