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KENELM WINSLOW. 
pressure (the two principal causes of oedema and anaemia 
cerebri) as in cholera, where the opposite condition exists.”* 
The theory of urinaemia is the one most generally accepted 
in human medicine, nearly all writers and practitioners 
agreeing that if it does not, in all cases, account for the entire 
phenomena of eclampsia it certainly has much to do with its 
causation. But it is impossible that urinasmia could be the 
cause of parturient apoplexy, for there can not be urine in¬ 
toxication without suppression of urine, and that condition, 
as before stated, is not present. 
Having discussed this point at considerable length in a 
former article which was published in the Review, it 
is not considered best to occupy space with a rehearsal. 
ACTION OF COLD APPLICATIONS AND OTHER AGENCIES UPON 
BODILY TEMPERATURE. 
By Kenelm Winslow, B.A.S., M.D.V., M.D., M.M.S.S., Instructor in Thera¬ 
peutics and Materia Medica at the Veterinary School, Harvard University, etc. 
The writer wishes to express himself as heartily concur¬ 
ring in the general sense of the remarks so ably set forth 
by Dr. Macaulay, in the Veterinary Review for March, 
concerning the use of cold applications in the treatment of 
pneumonia ; more especially so because it appears as if this 
were the line upon which improvement in antipyretic treat¬ 
ment was to be brought about. While particular stress will 
be laid upon the advantages to be derived from the use of 
cold, it is far from the purpose of this article to seem to de¬ 
preciate the co-operative value of other antipyretic measures. 
Dr. Macaulay makes a strong point in emphasizing the 
fact that counter-irritation has a tendency to unfavorably 
diminish respiratory movements in pneumonia. It does this 
not only mechanically, by making respiration painful, as that 
writer shows, but also through stimulation of the inhibitory 
nerves governing respiration. 
Exception must be taken, however, to the statement that 
* Billings, “ Eclampsia Parturientum,” Journal of ^Comparative Medicine 
ftnd Surgery,” Vol. V. page 127. 
