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most convenient in the sick-chamber, all odour disappears ; 
and it has an advantage above those in general use in the 
sick-chamber, that it has no odour of its own. Vinegar and 
chlorine and nitrous, acid gas, are often of themselves a 
nuisance; whilst destroying one odour they create another : 
but the permanganic acid has none. It only destroys ; it 
does not create. I have employed the solution successfully 
in my stables, and in other places engendering odours. It 
does not require frequent change. Has it lost its original 
beautiful purple colour? Has it become black and slimy ? 
If so renew it, but not till then/’ 
Communications and Cases. 
POISONING OF TWO STEERS WITH YEW. 
By J. Chapman, M.R.C.V.S., Gainsbro. 
I attended at Summer Hill, by the desire of J. Taylor,, 
Esq., to examine two steers, found to be amiss by the servant,, 
about half-past 2 p.m., on Sunday, Dec. 20th, 1857. The 
steers had been noticed by the man two hours before, and 
they then appeared to be all right, he having driven them out 
of the garden a little before 12 a.m. On my arrival, I found 
one of the steers dead. The symptoms, as described by 
the man, were violent shivering, falling forwards, with the 
head slightly turned to the near side, and burying the nose 
its full length in the ground. The second steer was seen 
immediately afterwards by the owner shivering violently, and 
after staggering it fell. A quantity of gin (four gills) 
was obtained and administered to the animal without its . 
offering the slightest resistance. It w r as afterwards covered 
up well with rugs, straw, & c. 
This steer I found rallied considerably. The symptoms 
still present were violent shivering, extremities deathly cold, 
the pulsation imperceptible at the jaw, nose dry. I gave, a 
powerful purgative ; ordered him to be well covered up and 
kept as warm as possible. I saw him again three hours after- 
wards, (it had within an hour of my leaving it walked j to a 
stable some eighty yards off.) The shivering having now 
ceased, the extremities being warm,, and the animal appearing 
to be doing well, I ordered him gruel diet, and to be kept quiet. 
Dec. 21st. — The medicine has operated. The faeces re-. 
