MOTION IN THE BLOOD. 
651 
Remarks .—However the reputation of a practitioner who 
relates an unsuccessful case may suffer, if he really has the good 
of his calling at heart, he will not hesitate to lay it before his 
brethren. It is under this impression I send the foregoing 
account to The Veterinarian, giving it to the readers of that 
journal, to extract from it what benefit they can. There is but 
one part of the case I feel inclined to make any comment upon, 
and that is, the application of the antimonial liniment to the 
sides. My attention was first especially called to the utility 
of this preparation by my friend Mr. Chapman, in October last 
year, when, under his direction, I used it in a case of pleurisy, 
with the most beneficial result; in fact, I firmly believe the 
patient owed his life to its application. It so happened that I 
took no note of the case at the time, as I did not witness its pro¬ 
gress from the commencement, in consequence of a temporary 
absence, during which Mr. C. superintended my practice at South¬ 
ampton. On this account, I am prevented from laying it before 
the public, which I am sorry for, as it was interesting and 
instructive. Since that time I have frequently had recourse to 
it, and never without effect: it has gradually risen in my estima¬ 
tion, and henceforth I intend it to supersede cantharides in 
chest affections. In the instance before us, its effect was most 
marked, producing extreme heat, great swelling, and, as appeared 
afterwards, an effusion of a considerable quantity of serous fluid 
beneath the skin. What the result would have been, had it 
been used earlier, I am not prepared to say ;— perhaps I should 
have had to relate a successful instead of an unsuccessful case. 
Preston, Nov. 1, 1834. 
A PECULIAR MOTION OF THE GLOBULES OF THE 
BLOOD. 
By M. Godine, Jun. 
In 1805 and 1806 I was employed, with the celebrated Aldini, 
in some Galvanic researches. We experimented in front of Port 
a l’Anglais, opposite to Alfort, on the borders of the Seine, on a 
horse, decapitated on the spot. The trunk was placed on the 
left bank of the river; it was armed with an iron wire or con¬ 
ductor, a metre (39J inches nearly) in length,and reaching to the 
Seine. The head was carried to the opposite bank, similarly armed, 
and was, consequently, separated from the trunk by the whole 
width of the river, about 400 metres (428 yards), at that place. 
Things being thus disposed, when the Voltaic pile, mounted and 
in action, was made to communicate with the trunk by a con¬ 
ductor, powerful contractions of the whole muscular system * 
