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EXTRACTS FROM GERMAN PAPERS. 
After ridding the uterine cavity of collected blood by irrigat¬ 
ing with water containing alum, we cauterized the wounds 
with a io per cent, carbolic solution (suturing being out of 
the question). 
After partaking of bran water and moistened bread 
sprinkled with salt, the patient became tranquil. Five hours 
after our departure the membranes were ejected in a physi¬ 
ological manner, but nothing extraordinary or malformed 
could be detected. Pieces of ice were introduced within the 
vaginal cavity as an adjunct to the carbolic solution in pre¬ 
venting inflammatory complications. 
The after-pains which usually are induced by wounds 
of this nature were almost if not quite wanting. On the 
second day the animal’s condition was satisfactory, though 
pyrexia and anorexia were present in an insignificant degree 
and were no doubt referable to the pain. 
After a fresh application of the carbolic solution, we used 
a prescription recommended by Wredens, and to whose 
efficiency we owe so much success in the treatment of fluor 
albus (leucorrhcea). This is very simple and consists of the 
following ingredients : 
Acidi Salicylici, 3 v, I 
Alcoholis, § vi. 
M. 
Sig.—Externally. Two tablespoon¬ 
fuls of water as an injection, t. i-. d. 
This same author recommends for the same disease one table¬ 
spoonful of alum in one quart of water, to be used at one in¬ 
jection. 
For the purpose of injecting these fluids we attached a 
large funnel to the end of a long flexible catheter. 
' Throughout ten days this procedure was continued, and 
after that, dilute creoline solutions were made twice daily. 
We believe the salicylic acid to have been much better borne 
than the creoline ; but whether this was due to less pain in-i 
duced, we leave our readers to judge. 
The thin scab of the cauterized surface was gradually 
