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pate his results, his patient not being as readily secured and 
treated afterwards. 
His highness having been firmly tied with ropes and 
chains in a manner safe to operator and patient alike, the 
doctor performed the operation, using the ecraseur and tak¬ 
ing all the antiseptic precaution necessary. 
The tunica vaginalis was found to be closely adherent to 
the testicle, and the spermatic cord unusually large and vas¬ 
cular for the size of the animal 
The severing of the cord was done very slowly, to avoid 
any profuse hemorrhage. The patient is doing well, and, like 
all the feline race, takes care of himself. 
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ENGLISH REVIEW. 
THE INTRA-TRACHEAL INJECTION OF IODINE IN PURPURA 
HEMORRHAGICA. 
By W. H. Bloye, F.R.C.V.S., Plymouth. 
In consequence of the generally improved hygienic con¬ 
dition under which horses in towns now as a rule live, cases 
of purpura hemorrhagica are by no means as frequent as 
they were ten or twelve years ago, and the opportunities of 
testing new remedies have, of course, become proportion¬ 
ately rare. 
In view of the frequently unsatisfactory results of all the 
older methods of treatment, in which category I include iron, 
turpentine, chlorate of potash, and even iodine, per orem, 
and further of the circumstantial account of Schaumkells 
successes with the Dieckerhoff treatment quoted in the ar¬ 
ticle translated by Mr. J. A. W. Dollar, I had at the time of 
reading this article determined to try the treatment at the 
first opportunity. Contrary to custom, the opportunity soon 
occurred. It has been my good fortune, chiefly perhaps as 
the result of a severe outbreak of influenza, to encounter four 
cases of purpura in little more than as many months—three 
of them concurrently. I adopted this method of treatment, 
