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to be desired in a hygienic point of view : the diet bad in 
quality and insufficient in quantity; absence of exercise; 
bad ventilation ; mixture of the sexes, &c. This was the state 
of confusion when the malady made its appearance, which ne¬ 
cessarily must have given to it a special malignity, and con¬ 
tributed at the same time to its diffusion. 
At the second appearance of the malady, M. Guilmot tried 
first to ascertain the fact whether the blennorrhagia urethralis 
was transmissible by direct contact. To this end be put a 
male pointer with a blennorrhagic bitch, and five days after 
he was convinced that the male dog was affected with the 
same malady. 
In the treatment of this double affection, the author recommends 
two methods. The first is hygienic, the second is the employ¬ 
ment of medicaments which have those particular properties 
that would be recommended in similar affections which he 
has described. The hygienic consists in the separation of 
the sexes, good ventilation, moderate temperature, cleanliness, 
and a moderate diet, consisting of milk and water, veal 
broth, &c. 
The medical consists in the use of purgatives, the balsam 
of copaiba ; and pomade of red precipitate. 
Of 24 dogs treated thus, all were cured of the blennor¬ 
rhagia in fifteen days; 15 were cured of the ophthalmia in 
twenty-two days, 4 remained affected with albuginea on both 
eves; 2 were blind, and 3 lost one eye each. 
Clinique Veterinaire , June, 1862. 
CATARRH OF THE GUTTURAL POUCHES.—OPERATION OF 
HYOVERTEBROTOMIA. 
By M. Boisnard, Veterinaire a Angouleme. 
In the month of April, 1861, the author was sent for to 
attend a mare, seven yearsold, which had been purchased about 
three months previous, at which time she had a cough, and 
there was also a discharge from the nose. This was supposed 
to be chronic strangles. The mare was not attended by a 
veterinary surgeon, but by a blacksmith, who had inserted a 
seton under the chest, which was in at the time of the author’s 
first visit. The proprietor, seeing that the cough continued, 
decided on submitting the animal to the care of a veterinary 
surgeon. 
Symptoms . The mare was in good condition; she had a 
long and rough coat, as compared with the other horses in 
