182 WORM IN THE URETURA.-^REMEDY FOR GLANDERS. 
He thus concludes ; that they, who, influenced by caprice or 
prejudice, would reject it without examination, are utterly in- 
‘ excusable; and would induce him to say, that that part of 
veterinary medicine which concerns the foot is not yet eman¬ 
cipated from the tyranny of superstition ; and that it cannot 
soon become a science, or even an art, because it is destitute of 
principles and inaccessible to reason. 
WORM IN THE URETHRA OF A DOG. 
M. SEON, Veterinary Surgeon to the Lancers of the Body 
. Guard, was requested to examine a dog straining in vain to urine, 
often uttering dreadful cries, and then eagerly licking the pe¬ 
nis. After having tried in vain to abate the irritation, he de¬ 
nuded the penis for the purpose of endeavouring to pass an 
elastic bougie, when he perceived a conical body half an inch 
long protruding from the urethra, with each effort of the dog to 
avoid his urine, and immediately afterwards returning into the 
urethra. He seized it with a pair of forceps, and drew out a 
worm much resembling the strongylus, and inches long. It 
was living and its movements were very active. A domestic, 
who held the dog, was frightened by the contortions of the 
worm, so that M. Seon could not ascertain its species. He only 
saw that its intestines were filled with a white fluid. The worm 
being extracted, the urine flowed, and the dog soon recovered. 
— Journ, Pratiquey Fev, 1828. 
REMEDY FOR GLANDERS. 
M. BALLESTRA, Veterinary Surgeon of Turin, is convinced 
by numerous experiments of the good effect of the strong mer¬ 
curial ointment in the cure of glanders. He shaves off the hair 
from the inside of the arm and thigh, and having bathed the 
parts well with warm water, he rubs in an ounce of mercurial 
