VETERINARY SCHOOL IN NASSAU STREET. 
and comparatively disappear in the winter. Emetics are our most 
successful weapons here. 
In some few cases of cattle, and among some undomes¬ 
ticated animals, w'e had most interesting and important illustra¬ 
tions of the nature of phthisis and the power of iodine over it. 
These well deserve a separate notice. 
The communication from Edinburgh is necessarily postponed 
until the next number. How happy should we be to give in¬ 
sertion to the transactions of another school, and which could 
not fail of beinff instructive and valuable! 
ABSCESS IN THE SUBLUMBAR REGION IN A MARE; 
PASSAGE OF PUS INTO THE VERTEBRAL CANAL. 
Bt/ M. Decoste. 
A MARE, eight years old, and that had been exceedingly irri¬ 
table, and accustomed to kick, sometimes ceased her violence all 
at once, and in her manner of going seemed to express consider¬ 
able pain in the lumbar region. On the 2d of November, 1S2G, 
she received a violent blow on that part, and a phlegmonous 
tumour followed as large as an egg. The populeum ointment 
was applied*. 
4th .—Fluctuation was perceptible; an incision was made into 
the tumour, and a small quantity of coagulated blood escaped. I 
should, perhaps, have said, that for some days before this acci¬ 
dent, she did not appear to have full power over her hind limbs ; 
the action was less free and assured, and a slight pressure on the 
loins gave very great pain, which she expressed by her groans. 
ryth.— She lay on her left side, and made violent and useless 
efi'orts to raise herself; and it was only by means of a bar, and 
the assistance of several persons, that we were able to get her up 
for a moment, and then her weight was supported bv her fore 
feet, wliile her hind limbs were flexed and motionless. We again 
’ I’Ins is a favourite emollient and sootliiiip; ointment m IiIi tlic In'eneli 
|)ractitioners. It is very curiously |)rej)are<l. 'Take of dried hiids of the 
hlaek poplar, two parts: fia;sli leaves ol popj)}', belladonna, black (common) 
beid)aue, black (common) ni<:;btsbadc, of each one i)art, and of j)repare(l 
lard twelve parts. 'I’be lea^(^s arc cut and bruiseil, and boiled in the laid, 
care bciiiji; taken tliat they do not burn ; the poplar buds bruised are then 
added, and left to infuse in the hot grease for two or three hours, ami tlm 
wh(dc then pressed throu};h a cloth or fine sieve. It is used to supple the 
skill, to hasten the separation of eschars, to heal chaps and cracks, and to 
railm pain and ease irritation in muscular and iibidiis jiarts. Y. 
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