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EXTRACTS FROM EXCHANGES. 
Of these five cases which, besides the free opening of the 
fistulous tracts, were treated with the free use of the liquor 
of Van Swieten in injections, the first and fifth made a re¬ 
covery, while the second, third and fourth had to be destroyed. 
From this result the author concludes that the wounds of the 
tendinous sheaths have great chances to heal by the antisep¬ 
tic and cleansing qualities of the Van Swieten dressings, but 
that these are less certain in their effects against the wounds I 
of large articulations, and that in those injuries, their efficacy 
diminishes and may lose its value in proportion to the length 
of time that may have elapsed from the beginning of the dis¬ 
eased process.— Ibid. < 
TREATMENT OF TETANUS WITH OXYGENATED WATER— 
RECOVERY. 
By Mr. G. Causse. 
This form of treatment, already recommended by Mr. 
Aureggio, who had already obtained favorable results in two 
cases of that affection, was put in practice upon an animal, a 
mare, eight years old, of nervous disposition, which was suf¬ 
fering from an attack of traumatic lockjaw resulting from a 
punctured wound of the right hind foot received some two | 
weeks previous. The treatment, the first day, was begun I 
with twelve subcutaneous injections of oxygenated water j 
with a syringe of five grammes, six injections on each side of 
the neck, and combined with mustard frictions on the throat 
and the masseter muscles, and forty grammes of chloral in 
rectal injections ; heavy blanketings ; nitrated watery mashes. 1 
The subcutaneous injections on the second day were in¬ 
creased to fourteen and kept up for ten days with little modi¬ 
fication, and on towards the tenth day the number of injec- $ 
tions seemed to be followed by a marked improvement. 
On the following morning a severe relapse manifests 
itself, which is supposed to be due to the reduction of the 
oxygenated water. One hundred and fifty grammes are 
then injected by fifteen injections in the morning and the 
same quantity given again in the evening, with the addition 
to the general treatment of 24 grammes of tartar emetic. 
