CURE OF LOCKED JAW—NEW DOCKING KNIFE. 389 
ich a disposition, may not the aqueous parts of the eye become 
iperabundant, and likewise altered in their properties ? and may 
>t this dispose the organ to take on general disease ? May not 
ie same plethoric state arise in the stable ? And do we not 
nploy antiphlogistics and evacuants to drive away the disorder? 
he disease is not seen in the mountains; but the colts get it 
’ter they are removed to feed in the valleys, which are highly 
iltivated. 
A gentleman who resides in the same country with M. Mar- 
npoey, and who constantly keeps from eighty to one hundred 
>rses at pasture, and sells" none of them prior to the fifth or 
tth year, never has any cases of specific ophthalmia, in consc¬ 
ience of pursuing a plan, both in pasturing and stabling his 
Its, which does not subject them to this plethoric influence. 
Recueil de Med. Vet . Cahier de Mars , 1829. 
Cure of Locked Jaw. 
iie same number of the Recueil contains an account of a case 
locked jaw, in which the jaw was immoveably locked ; and it 
is accompanied with rawness and spasmodic tumefaction of the 
no-ue. The pulse being hard and full, and the conjunctive 
embrane of the eye intensely red, M. Richaud (whose case it 
is) conceived that antiphlogistic means might prevail. Ac- 
rdingly, the first day he abstracted 12 tbs. of blood, the 
concf day 12 lbs., and the third day 8 lbs. : using nothing 
it warm clothing and injections in addition; and the animal 
covered. 
A New Docking Knife. 
[ the Journal Pratique de Med. Vet. for January last, is 
utained a description of a newly-invented docking instrument. 
; far as we can make out, the knife is intended to act by means 
a powerful spring (thereby superseding manual force), and it is 
t in operation by pulling a trigger, mounted somewhat after 
ja manner of the trigger of a pistol. We must confess we do 
t very well comprehend the description given o( this instru¬ 
ct; but, as far as we can understand, it appears to us to be 
Complicated machine, and, as such, one that is not very likely 
come into general use, even though it should be found effectual. 
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