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then available, half ounce doses were administered three times 
daily in bolus, along with dram doses of iodide of potassium. 
This was continued for a week, and as the improvement follow¬ 
ing the operation was maintained half ounce doses daily only 
were given with vegetable tonics for some days longer. The 
horse showed great weakness, but was discharged quite fit for 
work in nine weeks from the commencement of his illness 
The ending of this case is highly satisfactory, but there are 
several points which will bear touching upon. First, how much 
of the credit of the cure is due to the operation and how much to 
The drug, or are there other unnoticed causes contributing to 
this favourable result ? To determine these points requires a 
larger experience than one case. In the writer’s experience 
the operation of paracentesis thoracis always affords relief and 
prolongs life, but very few cases have made a permanent 
recovery. When the operation had to be repeated death 
always followed. This case, however may be an exceptional 
one, but the result encourages a further trial of the drug. 
' erhaps if it had been administered earlier the effusion would 
ave been checked and the necessity of an operation avoided 
It may be mentioned that the late Professor Dick, in his lectures 
used to relate a case of ascites in the dog which he cured by the’ 
administration of iodine. CYCLOPS. _ Ibid. 
PURPURA HEMORRHAGICA, IODINE TREATMENT. 
By Joseph Forgham, Hinstock, Market Drayton. 
. Subj * eCt ’ a black cart gelding, 9 years old, had been suffering 
rom a bad cold or influenza, but with the exception of a few 
nashes and rest had received no treatment. I was requested to 
>ee him on Sunday morning, 6th January, 1895, at 11 a.m., and 
ound the following symptoms :_ 
Both hind legs very much swollen right up into the thighs 
vith a serous oozing through the skin, dropping from the inside 
'f the limbs. The sheath was swollen. The abdomen, for a 
