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ACTION OF THE SESQUI-CHLOR1 DE OF IRON. 
Dr. Vinceute recommends as a local haemastatic, Ferri. 
Sesquichlorid. three to five parts, Aq. destill. 100 parts. 
As an internal haemastatic it is also advocated by him, and 
a solution of one part in 500 of distilled water, he says, may 
be usefully employed as an injection in uterine haemorrhage, 
and as an enema in chronic diarrhoea. The following is a 
form by him for an haemastatic and resolvent ointment : 
Axung, thirty parts, Ferri Sesquichlorid., four to fifteen 
parts. — Revue Medicate . 
DISEASES IN ANIMALS. 
Dr. Richardson states that he has seen pigs with croup, 
smallpox, measles, and plague. Dr. Furlong, of Antigua, 
states, on the authority of a letter from the wife of one of 
the first physicians in Trinidad, that, when the cholera was 
epidemic in that island, monkeys, wild and domesticated, 
died in great numbers from the disease. Travellers found 
them dead in the woods in every stage of the most malignant 
cholera. He says, moreover, they suffered equally from 
smallpox when it devastated the island, and that there was 
the same evidence of contagion amongst the monkeys in the 
case of cholera as in that of smallpox. Dr. La Roche, in 
his work 4 On Yellow Fever,’ states that 44 the effects of the 
epidemic constitution of the atmosphere, during the prevalence 
of yellow fever in New Orleans and elsewhere, were most 
striking. Early in June, 1805, cats began to droop and die; 
dogs, also, were severely and fatally affected, as well as rats. 
NJany of the cats died numb and torpid, while others were 
seized with delirium and puking. Even fish and oysters are 
known at times to participate in the same calamity. In 1798, 
flies were found dead in great numbers in the unhealthy parts 
of the city. At Gibraltar, in addition to dogs and monkeys, 
a goatherd lost a great part of his flock, and almost the whole 
ceased to give milk. At New Orleans, in 1833, there was 
much sickness amongst horses, cattle, and swine.” Again, 
44 in 1819? they died with rotten tongues, and sheep with 
rotten ears.” The 44 braxey” of sheep in Scotland is ana- 
logous to the affection last described. During the cholera at 
Grenoble not a swallow was to be seen ; but these birds 
reappeared as the epidemic disappeared. — The Lancet . 
