822 THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. 
ones, and dressed them with digestive ointment until the 26th of 
the same month. At the expiration of that period, the tumour was 
of precisely the same character and development as when I com- 
menced the treatment. 
I then determined to apply a strong blister, which I repeated on 
the 3d of August, but there was still no diminution of the tumour : 
I consequently resolved to abandon these usual, but here inefficient, 
modes of treatment, and to see what the iodine would do. 
I rubbed down the hydriodate of potash with lard in the propor- 
tions of ten drachms of the former to seven ounces of the latter, and 
commenced the application of it on the 13th of August. Half an 
ounce was gently but well rubbed into the tumour, and the quantity 
of the unguent was gradually increased until it amounted to an 
ounce and a half. 
Having arrived at this quantity externally applied, I commenced 
the use of it internally, and gave daily twelve grains of the iodine 
with three drachms of gentian. 
From this period the most marked improvement was observed, 
and, on the 3d of September, the tumour was not above one-third 
of its former size. She was then sent to work. 
On the 25th of October I had an opportunity of seeing her, and 
there was a still farther reduction of the enlargement. It is not 
perceptible while she is at work, and is only to be detected by 
placing the hand on the part. There is no lameness, and the re- 
maining portion of the tumour is soft when pressed upon. 
Nov . \lth . — The tumour is quite gone, and there remains only a 
slight thickening of the skin. 
THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. 
At the moment that a Society is forming in France for the 
purpose of devising means to prevent the cruel treatment to which 
our domesticated animals are too frequently subjected, it may be 
useful to relate that which is taking place in other countries, with 
the same noble purpose in view. We make the following extract 
from a German periodical 
“ The second chamber of the States of the Kingdom of Wirtem- 
berg is about to adopt some new police regulations. Article 54 
merits some attention : — 1 Whoever shall be found brutally treating 
any of the domesticated animals, shall for the first offence be sub- 
ject to a fine of 15 florins (nearly 27s.), or imprisoned eight days. 
On a repetition of the offence, he shall be fined 25 florins (nearly 
43s.), or be imprisoned fifteen days.’ ” 
There is more danger to the public morals than is imagined in 
permitting the street to become a theatre for the exhibition of the 
brutal and stupid cruelty of many of the drivers of the public car- 
