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rous, the cough more free, and a copious discharge of clear, 
healthy mucous. September nth, temperature 105°, pulse 60. 
Patient partook of mash and hay, and for the next five days 
improved rapidly; discharge from nose being copious and 
free from fcetor. 
A peculiar feature of the case was the temperature re¬ 
maining stationary 105° for five days. After the third day 1 
dropped the use of cinchonidia and gave no antiseptic at all. 
The above condition was, no doubt, due to a fleshy condition 
of the animal, there necessarily being greater oxidation, 
through lissen metamorphosis, the stored accumulation of 
nutritive elements maintaining the animal strength. 
The therapeutic effects of vapor with some aromatic added 
(as peppermint leaves,spruce or hemlock twigs)cannot be over¬ 
estimated. I. have always used it, and with success. It facil¬ 
itates an early discharge of mucous and retards abscesses. 
It allows the animal to partake of and swallow food earlier; 
often dispenses with the operation of tracheotomy, and I 
have never had a hemorrhage in a case where this was re¬ 
sorted to. 
To obviate the difficulty experienced in giving medicine 
in drenches, a long-nozzled syringe should be used, the medi¬ 
cine slowly injected over base of tongue, when it will be 
readily swallowed, at the same time producing a beneficial 
local effect. 
In the case alluded to we had luxation of the patella in 
right limb, two weeks after recovery, and has since given no 
little amount of trouble. Why may not this be a result of 
laryngitis indirectly, as case had met with no accident after 
recovery. It is noted, however, that luxation of the patella 
is often a result of any debilitating febrile disorder. 
EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY. 
HEREDITY OF TUBERCULOSIS. 
This important question was presented at the Congress 
on Tuberculosis, and answered by Dr. Wignal as follows: 
