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amounts from the excretory organ, and to a great extent 
through the skin, as the odour from the animal’s body fre¬ 
quently proves. In such instances, the benefits arising from 
“ sweating” can only be understood by those who have tried 
this plan of treatment, although, to a casual inquirer, the at¬ 
mosphere of the “bath,” in which a patient suffering from 
any of the above affections has been confined for an hour, 
would be tolerably strong proof of the presence of considerable 
quantities of morbid matters that must have been eliminated 
from the skin during the process. It is not our province here to 
enlarge upon the general treatment of special diseases ; but, in 
passing, we venture to suggest the expediency of treating these 
malignant cases much on the same principles that would 
guide us in the attempt to decompose the effete materials that 
we have removed from the system—by the action of disin¬ 
fectants; as the vapours of iodine or chlorine will rectify an 
atmosphere so rendered impure, so in a measure will com¬ 
pounds of those agents, particularly iodine, act in the animal’s 
body ; the penetrating power of this medicine may be judged 
from the fact that the agent can be easily detected in the 
secretions soon after the administration of its compounds. 
With a full conviction of the immense value of diaphoretics 
in the treatment of nearly all—perhaps reflection would lead 
us to say, all diseases, we leave these suggestions to the con¬ 
sideration of the profession, merely taking leave to observe 
that, in our estimation, the “ bath” is pre-eminently the most 
potent and least objectionable of diaphoretic agents. 
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[To be continued .) 
PURPURA HEMORRHAGICA.—DEATH.—EXTEN. 
SIYE DISEASE OF THE LIVER AND SPLEEN. 
By A. Walker, M.R.C.V.S., Rugby. 
The following case possesses so much interest, both in a 
physiological and pathological point of view, that I think it 
worthy of a place in your journal. 
On December 1 Oth, i860, my attention was called to 
several horses, belonging to Mr. Darby, dealer in horses in 
this town, suffering from influenza, and amongst them to a 
gray mare, the subject of the following remarks. 
