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saving the lives of animals to which I had administered 
strychnine in poisonous doses. 
Two years ago, through the kindness of Professor Varnell, of 
the Royal Veterinary College, I had the opportunity of trying 
the effects of wourali on a horse labouring under a very severe 
attack of tetanus. Although I did not succeed in saving the 
life of this animal, I nevertheless saw enough to convince me 
of the value of the remedy. Indeed, I was so convinced of 
its beneficial effects that I would have tried it on a boy 
labouring under traumatic tetanus whom I shortly afterwards 
saw along with Dr. Madge, had the disease not yielded to 
other remedies. 
Seeing the success that has attended the administration of 
wourali poison by M. Vella, and the results of my own experi¬ 
ments, I feel anxious that this substance should receive a fair 
trial at the hands of the profession. No doubt wourali is a 
dangerous poison, but in hands habituated to its use I believe 
it is not more to be feared than opium or any of the stronger 
drugs. 
DEATH OF CATTLE EROM EATING YEW BRANCHES. 
At Red House, Hursley, lately occupied by Mr. Fowlie, 
bailiff to Sir YV. Heathcote, Bart., there is a yew hedge cut 
to fancy shapes and figures. The operation of clipping it 
was performed recently, and the cuttings, which Mr. Fowlie 
during his occupation had always carefully collected and burnt 
at once, were on this occasion suffered to lie on the grass of 
the field. Alongside this field, Mr. Newton, of Ashley, 
had about thirty heifers to feed, and one morning some boys 
who were out picking mushrooms found eight of them 
lying dead at different places. A ninth was apparently in 
great pain, and a strong emetic given to it showed the cause 
of the death of the others—namely, the eating of the yew 
cuttings from the hedge.— Lancet , Oct . 15. 
PARTURIENT EFFECTS OF SULPHATE OF MORPHIA. 
Dr. Byrd says, I do not regard morphia as possessing 
superior properties to ergot, but I believe that it is as generally 
certain in its effects; and I have several times administered 
it w r ith success in arousing the dormant contractions of the 
uterus, when the secale had failed.— American Med.-Chir. Lev ., 
Mai/, p. 529« 
