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solution of nitre. The near-side stick was 2 feet 11 inches in 
length, and the off-side one 2 feet 8 inches, and by this simple 
contrivance we were enabled to keep her head perfectly straight. 
Some degree of fever supervening, the bowels being rather con- 
stipated, and a cessation of rumination having taken place, the 
following drink was given — Glauber’s salts, 8 oz. ; nitre, half an 
ot^nce ; and ginger, a drachm ; and this being repeated on the fol- 
lowing day, the desired effect was produced — the dung became 
pultaceous, the fever abated, and rumination commenced. From 
her present appearance, I shall discharge her in two or three days. 
I had a similar case in a mare belonging to Dr. Conolly, of this 
city — the kind attention of this gentleman to my son’s case I shall 
never forget. I had more difficulty in reducing the dislocation, and 
retaining the vertebrae in their natural position, but I eventually 
succeeded. The medicine which I gave the mare in order to subdue 
a certain degree of fever which accompanied the case, consisted of 
2 drachms of aloes, 1 of digitalis, 3 of nitre, and 2 of emetic tartar. 
With much pleasure I announce to you the perfect recovery of 
my son. A small farcy bud formed over the right eyelid, which 
was opened and dressed with creostote daily. Healthy granula- 
tions were soon produced — the wound healed — and the patient is 
as well as he ever was. We are indebted for this to the inform- 
ation which we derived from The VETERINARIAN. 
[M. Hurtrel D’Arboval has just published an enlarged and im- 
proved edition of his “ Dictionary of Veterinary Medicine and 
Surgery.” It now consists of six very closely printed volumes, of 
700 pages in each. It is become an exceedingly valuable and 
almost complete Encyclopedia of French veterinary practice. We 
shall, as occasion may serve, review certain portions of it. His 
remarks on dislocation of the cervical vertebrae will be new and 
useful to many of our readers, and may enable them to form a 
tolerably accurate opinion of the execution of the work. He had 
been speaking of dislocation of the ribs, and he thus continues : — 
“ The vertebrae of the neck, possessing a much greater degree of 
suppleness and mobility, are more susceptible of luxation — an ac- 
cident always serious, generally mortal, and necessarily so when 
the luxation is complete, for it then supposes and involves in it an 
entire displacement of the articular surfaces — a cessation of the 
connexion which exists between them in their natural state — a 
rupture of the ligaments which unite the vertebrae together, and a 
serious lesion of the spinal marrow. If the two central canals of 
the displaced vertebrae are no longer in correspondence, it will 
necessarily follow that the spinal marrow will be compressed and 
