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current cauterization, Bourgelat had advised, first to make inci- 
sions through the skin, and then to pass the cautery along these 
incisions ; but the merit of his discovery did not the less belong to 
M. de Nanzio on that account, for he was entirely ignorant of 
the mode of operation which Bourgelat had recommended. Be- 
side this, it remained for the director of the veterinary school of 
Naples to apply a mode of operating somewhat similar to that 
of Bourgelat to the treatment of these old lamenesses, which had 
so often resisted all our means of cure. 
I beg to thank M. de Nanzio, for my country, and on my own 
account in particular, for the communication which he has been 
so kind as to make of this new curative measure, and which 
is destined to render essential service in the treatment of these, 
hitherto, untractable cases. 
If I so strongly recommend this operation before I have had 
more extensive experience of its success in my own practice, it 
is because M. de Nanzio has inspired me with the greatest con- 
fidence in him, in the many interviews which I had the honour 
and advantage of having with him during his residence in Paris. 
U. Leblanc . 
Journal des Haras , Juin 1837. 
THE ADMINISTRATION OF PHOSPHORUS IN 
INFLUENZA. 
By Mr. H. Hutchinson, East Retford . 
Dec. 30th, 1836. — A bay hackney mare, four years old off, 
has been ill some time with the influenza. At the outset she was 
attacked with a sore throat, slight cough, the hind extremities 
much swollen, the abdomen very much tucked up, and the pulse 
70, very low and weak. She had been lame about six weeks 
previous in the off stifle, but had got perfectly sound by a seton 
being inserted over it. That leg was now excessively swollen, 
and two abscesses had formed ; one in the mammae, and the other 
just at the part where the seton had come out: both of them 
discharged very freely. I treated her by giving stimulants, and 
blistering the submaxillary and parotid glands, and down the 
front of the neck as far as the sternum, and inserting a seton un- 
der the jaw and in the chest. 
She has now become so weak that she can scarcely support 
herself, and will neither eat nor drink any thing, so that she sub- 
