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the muscles being - very rigid and trismus perfectly marked- 
When death was hourly expected, pneumonia supervened, 
with extreme pyrexia, which occasioned a revulsion of symp¬ 
toms, the muscles becoming flaccid, the jaws opening. The 
patient subsequently died from the gangrenous termination. 
PYOKTANIN FOR QUITTOR. 
Dr. Wilfried Lellmann, of New York, in an article in the 
September Journal of Comparative Medicine , describes his 
method of treating cartilaginous quittor with pyoktanin, as 
follows: 
I first apply a lukewarm footbath, of a one per cent, solu¬ 
tion of lysol; then, after examining the fistulas with a probe, 
I introduce a bistoury, provided with a knob at its point, as 
deeply as possible and make a good cut as the bistoury is 
drawn outward. II only one fistula is present, I prefer to 
make a vertical and a horizontal cut, which meet at right an¬ 
gles. If more fistulas are present, I either connect them by 
cutting or counter-openings, introducing drainage tubes, pre¬ 
ferring cutting. Afterwards is introduced a tampon of oak¬ 
um, saturated with a ten per cent, solution of bichloride, with 
a well-pressing bandage for twenty-four hours. This enlarges 
the fistula, and I commence injections of a ten per cent, alco¬ 
holic solution of pyoktanin, which seems to have the property 
of thrusting off tissue which has undergone necrosis. After a 
few injections, parts of the necrosed cartilage can be removed 
with forceps. Twelve or fifteen injections are sufficient; dur¬ 
ing first four or five days twice daily, thereafter once a day, 
following each injection by tampon and bandage. After in¬ 
jections are completed, wound to be syringed for several 
days with a solution of iodoform in ether—i to 7. After this 
treatment, wound becomes dry and shows no more secretions. 
To accelerate healing, suppositories are introduced, and kept 
in position by bandage, consisting of bismuthi dithio-salicylic 
made with cocoa butter and lanolin. Although there was 
great lameness in all cases, the horses could be put to work in 
two weeks and a half. 
A NOVEL ACCIDENT. 
Veterinary Surgeon Wm. J. Waugh, of the Third Cavalry, 
U.S.A., reports in the October Journal of Comparative Medi¬ 
cine and Veterinary Archives, that he was called in consultation 
upon a cow which had her oesophagus obstructed in its tho¬ 
racic portion by a dish-rag; that she was cast and a celluloid 
