86 PROCEEDINGS OF THE VETERINARY SCHOOL AT LYONS. 
has made us acquainted with an ointment, which we have used 
on many horses, when the farcy cords have been well developed, 
and before the suppurative softening has taken place. The ap¬ 
plication of it produces a very thick eschar, at the fall of which 
the tumour has disappeared. 
Rheumatism. —We observed many cases of rheumatic affec- 
tion of the loins among dogs during the last spring; they were 
usually produced either by plunging the animals into water, or 
by sulfering them to sleep at night in cold damp places. Some 
of these affections, which had proceeded to almost complete palsy 
of the hind limbs, have given way to embrocations with cam¬ 
phorated oil, and opium, or oil of morphia, or spirituous frictions; 
the loins being well covered. 
Castration. —No accident has occurred to any of the horses 
operated on with the clams. (The reporter does not mention 
whether the operation was performed in the covered or uncovered 
way.) 
Colic. —The dearness and scarcity of horse provender com¬ 
pelled the owners to consume all the provision for winter, and 
while it was both new and of a bad quality. It was then necessary 
to have recourse to vegetables, green or dry, and before they were 
fit to be eaten. The consequence of this was indigestion, accom¬ 
panied by enteritis, swelling of the belly, and colic more or less 
violent. We have been so fortunate as to lose only one horse 
out of twenty-two thus affected. We employed, in the treatment 
of them, dilute infusions of mallows and linseed, rendered slightly 
stimulant and antispasmodic by the addition of flowers of the 
linden-tree; emollient injections were also administered. When 
the spasm and swelling were considerable, we fomented with 
emollient liquids, at a temperature of 110 or 120 degrees of 
Fahrenheit, and which we applied by means of wool or flannel sur¬ 
rounding the belly and the loins. We bled from one or both of the 
external thoracic veins, when the pulse was hard and frequent ; 
and we did not neglect dry frictions, fumigations, and exercise. 
Rabies. —Notwithstanding the warmth and dryness which 
prevailed during the close of the spring and commencement of 
summer, we have not had any unusual number of rabid dogs in 
our infirmary. There were only twenty-two. 
Vertigo. —Of twenty horses attacked by this disease eight 
only were cured. In the last year we succeeded in saving eight 
out of sixteen, or one-half; but this year the deep yellow tint 
of jaundice was evident on the greater part of these patients, and 
their urine, from the very beginning, was of a yellow-brown colour, 
and thick, oily, and fetid. After having allayed the cerebral 
irritation, and reduced the nervous irritability, by a revulsive 
