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muscle remained. The oesophagus, accompanied by the artery 
and nerve, about one-third of the way down the neck passed in 
front of the windpipe, and so they continued their course until 
the entrance of the oesophagus into the chest, where they re- 
occupied their ordinary situation. The parietes of the oesopha¬ 
gus were thickened and red as far as the diaphragm. The chest 
contained a considerable quantity of purulent fluid. The pleuree 
were reddened, and covered by layers of albumen. 
Two physicians in this city having expressed a wish to apply 
to animals the novel mode of treating the diseases of the human 
being. Homoeopathy, we entered into their views, and the 
following is the result. We experimented first on the Dis¬ 
temper of Dogs, and under all its usual forms—as simple 
catarrh with increased secretion from the pituitary membrane, 
the conjunctiva, and the mucous membrane of the intestines, 
and with little or no cerebral affection—as a primitive inflam¬ 
mation of the cerebro-spinal system, shewn by fits, chorea, or 
palsy—as inflammation principally of the respiratory organs— 
and also under the form of pure gastro-intestinal inflammation. 
Under each of these forms of Distemper we used minute por¬ 
tions of the substances employed in similar cases in the human 
being, as aconite, belladonna, &c.; but our experiments not being 
yet sufficiently numerous or satisfactory, we shall reserve our 
account of them until the next year. 
We have received an interesting communication on vomition, 
produced in a young colt by having the stomach distended with 
green clover. It was conquered by means of emollient drinks 
often repeated; but,before it ceased altogether, it returned during 
several months, at intervals of fifteen or twenty days, and re¬ 
duced the colt almost to a skeleton. 
Another memoir has reached us on the inflammation of that 
portion of the pituitary membrane which lines the sinuses of 
the head and the horns. It is a most serious com])laiiit, very 
frequent in the Pays de Vaud, and is probably produced by 
the animals being kept in very close hot stables, whence they 
are let out once or twice in the day, and probably travel a con¬ 
siderable distance in order to drink, and so get catarrh. 
Ih’cucH, .Ini// 1835. 
