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Remembering the former attack I continued the arsenic 
for another fortnight, reducing the dose to three grains and 
only administering the last three doses on alternate days. 
The attack commenced on the fifth of the mont , an e 
coachman thought the previous attack was about a sum ar 
date. Bv way of anticipating a return of the disease o . _ 
fifth of next month, I advised the administration of arsenic in 
three grain doses to be commenced on the first and to be con¬ 
tinued till the tenth. This was done and no return o e 
ophthalmia occurred. . 
The horse remained under my care untill the middle 
August, and received daily doses of arsenic on the first ten 
days of each month. The coachman took away with him twelve 
powders, each containing three grains of the drug. These 
he administered in September. In October he had no ar¬ 
senic and thought that it was not worth while getting any. 
No attack occurred. On November 4th both eyes were again 
affected and never quite cleared up, so the horse was sold an 
1 * 1.1 of 
OS Vkicline to believe the arsenic really prevented the peri¬ 
odic return of the disease, and account for no attack recur¬ 
ring in October by supposing that possibly sufficient arsenic 
remained in the system to exert its mysterious prophylactic 
action. I have not been able to repeat the experiment, and 1 
know of no similar experience. Possibly some practitioner 
may be able to supply, further data. Ibid. 
PUNCTURE OF THE ABDOMINAL CAVITY, WITH PROTRUSION OF 
THE OMENTUM. 
By. T Bowhill, F.R.C.V.S., Darlington. 
The subject of this case was a two-year old filly, injured 
in a railway accident at Melrose, near Oakland, California, 
USA A splinter of wood from one of the broken horse¬ 
boxes pierced the off-side of the filly’s chest, about four inches 
anterior to the line of the diaphragm ; passing backward, it 
penetrated the abdominal cavity in the hepatic region, mi - 
way between the vertebrae and the sternum. W hen I first 
