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by this means, no doubt, his life was prolonged. This is a per¬ 
fectly unique case, and deserves to be placed among ourcuriosa. 
This volume also contains an important discovery in Toxico- 
logy. M. Bouley is principally concerned in this. The hydrate 
of the peroxide of iron, administered in a considerable quantity, 
and soon after the ingestion of the poison, is an antidote for 
arsenic. 
We proceed to the absorbent system. What can be more in¬ 
teresting than the account which Professor Hamont gives of the 
symptoms and connexions and lesions of farcy in the neighbour¬ 
hood of his newly-established Egyptian school ! We need not a 
better illustration of the influence of climate and locality. The 
diseases differ as much as any two diseases possibly can do which 
affect the same system, and have the same termination. The 
cases in which, as it appears in Prance, it has been demonstra¬ 
tively shewn by M. Renault to proceed from the re-absorption 
of pus, in whatever kind of abscess contained, teach a useful 
lesson as to the treatment and management of these abscesses. 
Their formation we cannot prevent; but we must hasten the pro¬ 
cess of suppuration as much as may be, and, suppuration having 
taken place, every moment that the cyst is permitted to be dis¬ 
tended by the matter thus formed is fraught with danger. 
The cure of farcy described by M. Maurice, as being effected 
by the extirpation or cauterization of the lymphatic glands in 
the direction of the thoracic duct, and so, provided that these 
glands are sound at the period of operation, arresting at once 
the course of the virus—this is a novel and an ingenious specu¬ 
lation. In the hind extremities, the lymphatics of the groin are 
to be extirpated. As it regards the back, the loins, and the 
flanks, the glands of the adipose substance of the flanks must 
be operated upon. In the fore legs, the neck, and shoulder, 
the glands on the inferior and lateral surface of the trachea 
must be removed ; and for the head and the interior of the 
nose, the lymphatic glands of the neck should be extirpated. 
M. Maurice speaks of 300 horses that have been cured in this 
way. These are speculations or facts which cannot fail of at- 
