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sypliilitic, foetid, and malignant ulcers; cancer, tetters, herpes, 
ulcerations of the mouth, diseases of the gums, caries of teeth, 
putrid sore throat, ptyalism, apthae, ozena, ophthalmia, puru¬ 
lent and syphilitic; and gonorrhoea. 
If the chloride of soda be thus useful in human surgery, it will 
not, probably, be quite inert in the quadruped. We believe, how¬ 
ever, that it has been almost unknown and untried by English 
veterinarians. Our experience of it.is very limited. We have 
used it with manifest advantage in a case of fistulous withers. 
Under its exhibition the ulcer assumed a healthy appearance in a 
far shorter time than it usually had'done with our caustics and 
scalding. We destroy the foe tor of thrush with it, and generally 
arrest the progress of canker more speedily than we were enabled 
to do by any other means. In the putrid stage of distemper in 
the dog, we immediately remove the foetor, and dispose the lips, 
and muzzle, and mouth to cleanse and heal, which we could only 
partially accomplish by the pyroligneous acid, and which we could 
not effect, in the slightest degree, by any thing else. In the insuf¬ 
ferably stinking breath of petted dogs, arising from the accumula¬ 
tion of tartar on the teeth, and ulcemtions of the lips and gums, 
we have applied the chloride with unfailing benefit. Beyond this 
our experience extends not; and we do not know a veterinary 
surgeon who has given it the slightest trial. 
Mr. Alcock collects the experiments of French veterinarians. 
Messrs. Dupuy, Girard Jun., Vatel, Berger, and Bouley Jun. 
experienced good effects from it in the carbunculous tumours 
which followed the exhibition of setons in the epidemic of the 
spring of 1825; and M. Dard, in the spring of the same year, 
cured a glandered horse with it. 
We are happy that we can direct Mr. Alcock to additional and 
most gratifying proof of the efficacy of the chloride of soda in the 
last-mentioned and most fatal disease* 
M. Marc Etienne, veterinary, surgeon to the 1st regiment of 
Cuirassiers, arrived at Moulins in May, 1827 (Recueil de Med, 
Vet,, April, 1828). The barracks were most unhealthily situ¬ 
ated, and the regiments which had successively occupied them 
had sustained dreadful losses from farcy and glanders. The forage 
was likewise particularly bad, and disease began soon to appear. 
The slightest wound on the body or extremities was complicated 
with farcy-ulcers; and almost every inj ury of the head was fol¬ 
lowed by enlargement of the lymphatic glands, and defluxion 
from the nostril on the same side. The troops were exercised on 
a sandy plain, the dust of which irritated the membrane of the nose, 
and predisposed for inflammation; and in January and February 
1828, thirty horses died decidedlv olandered. Extensive ulcera- 
