490 TRANSLATIONS FROM CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 
THREE CASES OE TETANUS CURED BY A COMPLEX 
TREATMENT. 
By M. Pauly, Y.S., a Perigueux (Dordogne). 
The author agrees with the medical profession that tetanus 
consists in an inflammation of the cerebro-spinal nerves, which 
is either diffused or circumscribed, and he also thinks, with 
Gelle, that this inflammation is more particularly confined to 
the roots of those nerves which are given off from the inferior 
portion of the spinal cord. 
It would be useless to give the symptoms of these three 
cases, as they do not differ from what is seen in ordinary 
cases of tetanus. 
The treatment consisted principally in the repeated ab¬ 
straction of blood, to the amount of from three to four pounds 
each time, and in the administration of the acetate of mor¬ 
phine, combined with sulphuric ether, in an infusion of the 
flowers of the lime-tree. This was given through the nose, 
when unable to open the mouth. Camphor ointment was also 
applied to the spine and masseter muscles. 
Clinique Veterinaire die Mois de Jilin, Juilliet , et Aoiit 
By U. Leblanc, C. Leblanc, and Weber. 
MEETING OE THE 20th OE APRIL. 
General Marquis de Grouchy, Reporter. 
The veterinary societies of the Department of the Seine 
Inferieure, and also of the Eure, have presented some obser¬ 
vations on the practice of veterinary medicine, which they 
have accompanied with a project of law on this subject. 
Similar ones are also made by the veterinary societies of 
Charente, Calvados, Manche, and the Loire Inferieure. 
First, we have to remind you that, in 1854, 1857, and 1858 
analogous petitions were presented to you by several veteri¬ 
nary societies, and that the Senate ordered these petitions to 
be sent to the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce. The 
minister, in his report addressed to the emperor on the 
petitions which had been referred to the different ministerial 
departments, and after having stated in 1854 that a project 
of law relative to the practice of veterinary medicine had been 
under consideration for some time already, announced in 1858 
