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A. L1AUTARD. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
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RESUME OF THIRTY-FIVE OBSERVATIONS UPON THE EFFECTS 
OF MALLEINE. 
1st Observation. FARCY.— Bay gelding, aged, has farcinous 
cords on the left hind leg ; he is in good condition ; temperature 
on September 25, 1892, at 8 A. M., is 102 3-5 ;° at 8 P. M., 103°; 
on the 26th, 103° in the morning, 104° in the evening; on the 
27th, at 8 A. M. it is 102°; he receives 2 %° cc. of a solution of 
Roux malleine, prepared according to directions, viz., icc. of 
brute malleine in 9 cc. of carbolized distilled water.* 
At 10 A. M. temperature is 104. 
104. Swelling on the shoulder. 
104 2-5. Increased double in size. 
103 2-5. Remains the same—horse has slight colic. 
At 12 “ 
At 2 p. M 
At 4 “ 
At 6 “ 
At 8 “ 
103. 
102 3-5. 
102. 
On the 28th, at 8 a. m., thermometer register, 
102 3-5 1 the swelling is very large. 
The cords have considerably increased since the 25th, and 
the body is so extensively covered with farcinous ulcers that 
the horse is destroyed. 
This being our first observation, it is possible that the 
technic of the operation has not been as perfect as it might 
have been. 
2d Observation. ABANDONED BY ITS OWNER.— This is an 
old horse, owned by a physician, who abandons it as being 
* All injections were made on one or the other sides of the neck. 
