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nent physician of Long Island, being inoculated by his 
own horse, and died. I have been informed that there have 
been many fatal cases in this city, which have escaped the 
notice of the human surgeon. Something ought to be done 
to prevent the owners of horses afflicted with a virulent, 
contagious disease, like glanders, being exposed in the public 
streets. Every man ought to be made to answer for so gross 
a misdemeanour. Humanity demands it . — New York Spirit of 
the Times. 
IODOFORM. 
A new preparation of iodine, discovered by Sevillas and 
more especially brought to notice by MM. Dumas and 
Bouchardat, possesses properties which promise to make it 
a valuable addition to our means of employing, with benefit, 
this important therapeutic agent. It presents itself in a 
solid state, in the form of small pearly particles, of a sulphur- 
yellow colour, friable, soft to the touch, and vrith a very 
enduring aromatic odour. It contains more than nine- 
tenths of its weight of iodine. It is sweet to the taste, and 
is not corrosive. 
It destroys animals in a smaller dose than iodine, after 
having produced more or less depression, and rarely produces 
vomiting. This depression is followed by a stage of excite- 
ment, convulsions, contractions, &c. Iodoform does not 
produce the least local irritation, not producing the slightest 
increase of vascularity of the mucous membrane of the 
stomach and bowels. 
Its therapeutic properties are thus arranged: — 1. In con- 
sequence of the large quantity of iodine which it contains, 
it can replace iodine and the iodides in all the cases in which 
these are indicated. 2. It is absorbed with the greatest 
facility. 3. It has the advantage over all other preparations 
of iodine of never causing any local irritation, or any of 
those accidents which render the suspension of iodine neces- 
sary in certain cases. 4. In addition to the properties it 
enjoys in common with iodine, it has advantages peculiar to 
itself: it allays pain in certain neuralgic affections, and pro- 
duces a sort of local and partial anaesthesia of the rectum, 
wdien introduced into that organ. 5. It may be given in 
doses of from five to fifty centigrammes a day. 6. The 
principal diseases in which it has been employed with 
advantage are endemic goitre, scrofula, rachitis, syphilis, 
