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GLYCERINE. 
“ Case II. — Idiopathic Tetanus. 
“ An ass was brought to the Veterinary College labouring 
under an attack of the severest form of tetanus. The animal 
was in a very emaciated state, apparently from hard labour 
and scanty supply of food ; and, being unable to walk, he 
was conveyed in a barrow. The disease had existed forty- 
eight hours. 
The Wourali was employed as in the former case, with the 
same effect, and artificial respiration produced reanimation in 
about the same time. The long-continued irritation of the 
disease, however, had produced too great exhaustion of the 
system, in this debilitated subject, to allow of a sufficient 
recovery of strength to enable the animal to rise ; nevertheless 
the disease had entirely disappeared, and for twenty-seven 
hours he was enabled to take a little food ; at the end of that 
time he died without having shown a single symptom of tetanus 
subsequent to the inoculation of the poison” 
Facts and Observations. 
GLYCERINE A PROPOSED SUBSTITUTE EOR OILS AND EATS 
IN OINTMENTS. 
The late Professor Coleman was of opinion that greasy 
compounds should never be applied to the skin when inflamed, 
on account of their becoming rancid by the absorption of 
oxygen, and thus acting as irritants. Besides which there 
are other objections to be raised against the use of fats and 
oils when resorted to for lesions of the surface of the body. 
Among these may be mentioned their insolubility in water, so 
that when they require to be removed, the operation will some- 
times call for the employment of some little amount of friction, 
thus giving pain to the animal; or the employment of 
soap, or of an alkali is required, which it may be desirable to 
avoid. A second objection is, the medicaments to be used 
are often insoluble in fats, and hence all the good anticipated 
is not obtained. 
The substitution of an unobjectionable vehicle has been 
long thought desirable, and Mr. G. F. Schacht has, in a 
communication addressed to the Pharmaceutical Society, and 
published in its ‘ Transactions’ for the last month, proposed 
