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not eaten for the last three days. Looking for a cause for the 
bad breath and protruding tongue, I examined the teeth and 
found them all right, but looking further back in the mouth 
I discovered a piece of sharp bone, about an inch long, with 
a sharp fang, which had become implanted in the gum just 
behind the left last molar, and was lodged directly across the 
mouth, just over and behind the base of the tongue. This was 
extracted without any difficulty, and the little animal immedi¬ 
ately relieved of his “ traumatic difficulty of deglutition.” 
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PILOCARPINE IN INDIGESTION OP SOLIPEDS. 
By Mr. Cadix. 
The author was twice called, on different occasions, to 
attend horses suffering with all the symptoms of gastric and 
intestinal indigestion, and had applied the ordinary forms of 
treatment by ether, sulphate of sodas, acetate of ammonia, 
stimulating teas, etc., without gaining any advantage. Find¬ 
ing his patients getting worse, he then had recourse to eser- 
ine, which he injected under the skin in doses of ten centi¬ 
grams, but still without obtaining the slightest improvement. 
Having then decided to use the acetate of pilocarpine, he 
injected subcutaneously ten centigrams of it in ten grams of 
distilled water. The result of this was extremely satisfactory, 
the ptyalism, which is the first effect produced by the admin- * 
trationof the drug, being almost immediately followed by the 
dropping of fasces, and in a short time the two patients were 
looking for their feed. 
In a third and similar case, taking advantage of his expe¬ 
rience with the two previous patients, he again employed the 
same remedy, and had the satisfaction of relieving his patient 
in about an hour. The conclusions of the author are, first : 
acetate of pilocarpine has a surprising effect in the treatment 
of indigestion in horses ; second, it is generally superior to 
all stimulating drenches, and even to sulphate of eserine ; and 
third, it is entitled to take precedence among known remedies 
in cases like those referred to, in common practice.— Rec. de 
Med . Vet. 
