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covered with petechial spots more or less on its external 
surface — the left ventricle is found to be filled with a grayish 
coagulum, but the right with dark-coloured venous blood. 
This disease prevailed in 1853 with far greater severity, but 
its duration was not so long. The author asks the question 
whether this new malady has not some analogy to the pleuro- 
pneumonia of cattle which has of late years visited the north 
of Italy with great severity. 
ANAESTHETICS TOPICALLY APPLIED. 
Del Signor G. Levi, Medico-Yeterinario, Toscano. 
The author of this paper was led, by the results obtained 
by the Faculty of Medicine, since the memoir which M. 
Rechet read at the Academy of Medicine, in Paris, on the 
local application of anaesthetic agents in surgical operations, 
to try them on domestic animals; and he gives the following 
results. Having to cauterize a splint on the off fore leg of a 
mare, he applied an ounce and a half of ether to the part 
during the space of twenty minutes, which so blunted the 
feeling, that the mare never moved during the operation, 
although she was of a highly nervous temperament. By the 
same process another horse was fired with similar success; 
and an English dog had a large tumour removed, without 
giving indications of pain. The great advantage of this mode 
of subduing pain is, that operations on the horse and other 
large animals can be performed standing, thereby avoiding 
the difficulty and danger of casting them. 
Journal des Velerinaires du Midi, August, 1858. 
This number commences with a meteorological table for 
the three months of the last quarter, in which the conditions of 
the barometer, thermometer, and hygrometer are dailyentered, 
as also the direction of the wind. Compared with the year 
1856, it is shown that while in 1856 the west wind predomi- 
nated, in 1857 the south wind was most frequent ; but it is 
remarkable that during the two corresponding quarters of 
each of these years the north wind prevailed for an equal 
number of days, and that it was more frequent than any of 
the others. The prevalence of this wind during the hot 
weather is very favorable to health, and also to a favorable 
issue of all diseases, provided animals are not exposed to it 
when heated. This is, however, far from being the case with 
the west wind, and still more so with that from the south, 
which is much more obnoxious on account of the humidity 
by which it is charged. Under its influence animals are 
