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and the results which commonly attend it. Following simple 
keratitis, conjunctivitis, or traumatism of the cornea, it is also 
commonly seen in distemper; but in all its forms it is apt to 
be more or less irresponsive to treatment, whatever may be 
its character, or whatsoever may be the medicaments em¬ 
ployed, whether vegetable or mineral astringents, solutions of 
alum, or sulphate of zinc, or copper, or iron, or collyria of 
alcohized water, or even the nitrate of silver caustics, or cor¬ 
rosive sublimate, as recommended by Nocard. 
The author, having treated several cases of traumatic 
ulcerative keratitis, has had recourse to actual cauterization 
with very fine points, applied superficially on the edges of 
the upper eyelid; a fine knitting needle forming a very eligi¬ 
ble instrument for the operation. For local treatment of the 
globe, he applied on two occasions the pencil of sulphate of 
copper, and in about ten days there remained but a small 
leucomatous cicatrix, which was soon removed by the insuf 
flation of pulverized rock candy and calomel in equal parts. 
— Rec. de Med. Vet. 
TREATMENT OF HEMORRHAGIC PHLEBITIS. 
By M. G. Maris. 
[The operation of phlebotomy being seldom performed by 
American veterinarians, the complication referred to is not 
likely to be often encountered in their practice. But when it 
occurs it sometimes constitutes a serious accident, and the 
hemorrhagic flow becomes difficult to control. The author's 
remarks may prove of interest and profit to our readers. 
—Ed.] I 
The wound being thoroughly cleaned, and the hair cut 
short, the head is kept well extended on the neck in order to 
judge accurately as to the amount of the hemorrhage. If 
this is abundant, a temporary hemostatic ligature is applied 
above the wound caused by the bleeding and from which the 
blood escapes. The wound is then thickly covered with 
iodoform, over which is placed a layer of collodion, contain¬ 
ing i per cent, of iodoform and of perchloride of mercury, and 
