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avoided, jd. Subcutaneous injections give rise to a phlegmon 
which acts as a powerful revulsive. Intramuscular injections 
produce an inflammation of the muscles and also of the deep 
tissues, whose revulsive action not only facilitates the reparative 
processes, but also produce a greater immobility. 4th. From 
the cases observed, no specific action can be granted beyond 
its irritating power. ytJi. Subcutaneous injections have pro¬ 
duced less severe effects than the intramuscular,—and for that 
reason they will give rise to a direct effect on the organs of lo¬ 
comotion of the region, which will be better immobilized. 
6th. Subcutaneous injections, to resume, are better indicated in 
recent and slight cases ; intramuscular in chronic cases with 
muscular atrophy.^ yth. The revulsion and immobilization 
obtained by the injections, especially the intramuscular, are su¬ 
perior to those produced by all other means recommended. 
8th. If the effects of the injections are greater than those of 
other remedies, it does not follow that it is an infallible panacea 
for all shoulder lameness, gth. At any rate, when the injec¬ 
tions are successful, the lameness does not subside until the 
phlegmon, the abscess or the myositis have disappeared. 10th. 
Taking in consideration the other means employed against 
shoulder lameness, it seems that the duration of the treatment 
is about the same as in the injections of chloride of sodium, and 
more if used in the muscles. The injections, however, present 
the advantages of not leaving any blemishes. 
REVIEW OF BIOLOGY. 
Upon the Glanderous Scirrhosis of the Fiver [By 
Ccidiot and Gilbert \.—At the autopsy of a 12-year-old horse, 
which had died of extensive lesions of pulmonary glanders, the 
authors found in the liver scirrhotic lesions well marked, as 
well as glanderous nodules. The scirrhosis was evidently peri¬ 
lobular, though not exclusively, as it spread by numerous ex¬ 
pansions in the lobes themselves. Distinct in some places, the 
nodules and scirrhosis mingled together in thousands of places 
and seemed to be acting under the same causal agent. Glanders, 
then, may bring on scirrhosis of the liver. The authors 
have already related muscular and tuberculous hepatic scirrho¬ 
sis in the horse and on that account are inclined to believe that 
this affection takes place in that animal with a relative facility. 
— (Soc. of Biol.) 
