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during the night. The ointment, the entire quantity of which 
was applied in the evening, produced a general alow over the 
arm and neck, and seems to have been serviceable in allaying the 
pain of the throat, which pain has been constant for the last two 
days. Each dose of the medicine makes her sick. Aversion to 
fluids diminished. 
Liq. Arsenicalis gutt. ij. 4tis horis. Rep. Unguent. Pars 
magnitud. nucis avellanae partibus aflectis 4tis horis in- 
fricatur. 
\bth .—Since the 9th the patient has been gradually improving, 
though the process of deglutition is even at present rather painful, 
and the trickling of water cannot be borne without uneasiness. 
Her gums are swelling, probably from the effects of the arsenic, 
which she has been taking in the last-mentioned dose ever since. 
From the steady progress which has already been made towards 
recovery, there seems every chance of a permanent cure. 
Aug. \0th .—Up to the present time there has been no return 
of the complaint. 
All the symptoms of hydrophobia which this woman had 
appear to have arisen from nervous irritation, and not altogether 
from absorption of the virus, the pain being clearly traced along 
the course of the musculo-spinal nerve towards the elbow-joint, 
and from thence to the axilla, and afterwards to the brain. The 
case warrants, we think, the free excision of bitten parts at any 
period after an accident, as a practice likely to prove the best 
prophylactic against the terrible disorder of hydrophobia; and 
also as one which ought to be adopted, if practicable, even when 
the disease has set in, until experience shall have decided upon 
its utility. Dr. Bardsley, of Manchester, in his able article on 
the subject in the ** Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine,’’ quotes 
a case, related by Professor Rust, where the wound was excised 
thirty-one days after the bite, and after hydrophobic symptoms 
had appeared, and where the patient’s life was saved. 
THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE EYE OF THE HORSE. 
By Mr. J. C. Molyneux, King Street, Kilkenny, Ireland. 
Being a portion of the Essay read and defended hy him at the London Veterinary 
Medical Society, previous to his obtaining the title of Honorary Fellow 
of that Society. 
The eye of the horse is so placed that it commands nearly a 
whole sphere of vision, being situated at the side of the head, 
and pointing a little forward. Thus he has ample visual means 
