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speak, regular classical operations. Such are those that Prof. 
P. J. Cadiot has gathered in the little neat volume issued by 
Asselin & Houznan. It is an excellent work which is extens¬ 
ively illustrated, and which will give to the reader a most inter¬ 
esting and instructive pastime, for though it may be Alforian, it 
is universal in its usefulness. 
Ncurotcmie Mediane. (Median Neurotomy.) By Mr. C. 
Pellerin. Asselin & Houznan, Paris. 
A little pamphlet of some 60 pages in which the section of 
the median nerve is recommended in the treatment of chronic 
affection of the tendons of the fore leg and in periostosis of the 
cannon with the presentation of 20 observations where the 
treatment has applied with a result of one failure, six improve¬ 
ments and fourteen recoveries. 
Peroxide of Hydrogen.— Free of Charges. The thera¬ 
peutical applications of Peroxide of Hydrogen (medicinal), 
Glycozone and Hydrozone, by Charles Marchand, Chemist. 
Ninth Edition. 
This book of 200 pages, which contains all information on 
the subject, with reprints of elaborate articles by leading con¬ 
tributors to medical literature, will be mailed to doctors 
mentioning this publication. 
Send full address to Charles Marchand, 28 Prince Street, 
New York. 
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PROLAPSUS RECTI IN A SOW. 
By M. J. Guittard. 
A sow 15 months old, after a night of laboring pains, 
ending in the presence of a litter of 13 little pigs, presented 
the next morning a large prolapsus of the rectum, which pro¬ 
truded as a mop of dark red brownish color, and which was in¬ 
creasing at every effort of the animal. By careful manipulation 
