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GLEET IN DOGS. 
Van-Swieten” into the prepuce, with double the quantity of the 
bi-chloride of mercury*. 
I will confine myself to the three following cases in illustration 
of this. 
Case I.—A dog, eight months old, has had a purulent dis¬ 
charge from the prepuce during the last month : the matter was 
thick, of a green yellow colour. The animal expressed no pain 
on pressure ; was lively, and in good health. 
Mucilaginous injections were first tried without success ; 
then injections of the liq. plumb, superacet. much diluted. This 
made the membrane pale, but the discharge was not les¬ 
sened. Two-drachm doses of the balsam of copaiba, in a de¬ 
coction of sarsaparilla, were then given twice, but relinquished, 
on account of the difficulty of administering them. 
Twenty days elapsed, and no ground having been gained, 
the “ Liqueur de Van-Swieten” was had recourse to, diluted 
with eight times its weight of water, and the proportion of water 
diminished every day. On the ninth day the animal was dismissed 
from the infirmary, the discharge having ceased. 
Case II.—A dog was brought to the infirmary to be treated 
for fistula lachrymalis. On the following day gleet was ob¬ 
served ; the membrane of the prepuce was pale ; there was not 
any tenderness, and the discharge was very thick. The solution 
of corrosive sublimate was resorted to at once, and in eighteen 
days the discharge had ceased. It could not be perceived even 
on pressure of the prepuce. 
Case III.—A dog was admitted that had had discharge 
from the prepuce during six months, and for which copaiba and 
purgatives had been resorted to without effect. The discharge 
was evidently not only from the membrane of the prepuce, but 
also from the urethra. Eruptions had likewise appeared around 
the base of the ear, and also on the eyelids. 
The liquor was injected into the prepuce, and also into the 
urethra ; and an ointment of sulphuretted mercury was applied 
to the ears and eyelids. The eruptions soon disappeared, and in 
twelve days the dog was dismissed, free from all complaint. 
* Moiroud gives the following as the formula of the “ Liqueur de Van 
Swieten” used at Alfort. 
Bi-chloride of mercury (corrosive sublimate) one drachm (three scruples, 
and each scruple containing twenty-four grains). 
Alcohol, three ounces. 
Distilled water, five pounds (16 oz. to the lb.) 
The French give this to the horse in doses of a pint for glanders, farcy, 
and old and obstinate cutaneous diseases; and externally they apply it in 
cases of mange, obstinate cutaneous eruption, grease of long standing, and 
indolent ulcers.—Y. 
