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172 EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
NUX VOMICA AND STRYCHNIA IN THE TREATMENT OF PURPURA. 
By Mr. Rottde. 
This is the record of three cases of purpura successfully 
treated by the administration of these nervous stimulants. In 
the first case an animal which presented the characteristic 
swellings of the legs and abdomen, with petechial spots over 
the mucous membranes, was treated with four grammes (one 
drachm) of the powdered nux (given in wine), and after three 
days was completely relieved. 
In the second, the same symptoms existed, but in a severer 
aspect, besides which the head was so enormously swollen as 
to render the prehension of food impossible. Puncture with 
the actual cautery were performed and nux vomica pre¬ 
scribed, and in a few days the animal made a good recovery. 
In the third case the symptoms were still more marked, and 
the same form of treatment seemed to produce no effect on the 
patient. The head continued to swell, and the respiration 
was effected to an extent which seemed to threaten suffoca¬ 
tion. To prevent this tracheotomy was resorted to, and the 
treatment changed to the hypodermic injection of a solution 
of sulphate of strychnia. This treatment, which was con¬ 
tinued for forty hours, was followed by a rapid improvement, 
and though the case became complicated by local gangrenous 
swelling and of the sloughing of the wound of the trachea, 
the animal was in a short time able to resume his work.— Ibid. 
[This form of treatment of purpura is one which is in com¬ 
mon practice with American veterinarians, Dr. J. Hopkins, of 
Newark, N. J., having been one of the first to put it into use. 
—Ed.] 
SUDDEN TEARING OF THE LATERAL LIGAMENTS OF THE 
HIND FETLOCK JOINT. 
By Mr. L. Magnin. 
A half-thoroughbred mare was found one morning in her 
stall, making violent efforts to rise, during which the right 
hind fetlock showed an abnormal movement of flexion. Suc¬ 
ceeding at length in getting upon her feet, the hind fetlocks 
