TRANSLATIONS FROM THE CONTINENTAL JOURNALS, 519 
the conclusion that the disease was one arising from an 
alteration of the blood, approaching to the typhoid fever of 
the solipedes. Quinine, camphor, and peroxide of iron, were 
employed at first, but on the third day the tongue was 
observed to be enormously tumefied, so that it filled the whole 
cavity of the mouth, which was full of foam. On examina- 
tion at each side of the frenum, a large pustule was found, 
of a yellowish black colour, turgescent, of the form and size 
of an egg, and extending in the direction of the sublingual 
glands. At the commissure of the lips, on the inside, was 
also found a pustule of the same nature. The head was 
extended, the neck, throat, and parotid glands, particularly on 
the left side, were much tumefied. The respiration was laboured 
and sonorous ; deglutition was impossible, as the tongue could 
not perform the least movement. There was now no doubt 
of the malady being a severe case of Gloss-anthrax, the cure 
of which was very uncertain. The pustules were excised in 
the usual way, by means of a pair of curved scissors, and 
afterwards freely cauterised with the actual cautery. Dis- 
infecting gargles were used for the mouth, and mercurial 
frictions applied to the parotid glands. According to a pre- 
vailing opinion as to the effects of arsenic as a revulsive, an 
arsenical seton was inserted in the chest. 
The author here enters into detail as to the action of 
mercurial ointment, when applied by friction, particularly 
on charbonous tumours, in its rendering the blood less 
coagulable, and its comparative influence on man and animals. 
The first effect of it on these tumours is to check their pro- 
gress, and in two or three days after resolution takes place ; 
but for this it is necessary that the ointment should be strong, 
and the application of it freely made, so as to completely 
saturate the affected parts. It is said, when the ointment 
is thus employed, that the debilitating effects on the 
system are to be dreaded ; but he has failed to confirm this 
in regard to the solipedes. 
The mare thus treated, up to the eleventh day, had 
nearly recovered, with the exception of a hard tumour which 
existed on the left side of the head, at the seat of the 
parotid. The skin of this suddenly detached itself, and with it 
three parts of the gland sloughed away, leaving exposed the 
gutteral pouch and the os hyoides. This was followed by an 
escape of blood, of such force that if it had not been speedily 
stopped, it would have undoubtedly killed the animal in less 
than a quarter of an hour; for the blood escaped through 
the mouth and nose at the same time. But the hemorrhage 
was quickly checked by the elevation of the head, in the first 
