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Post-mortem showed small particles of caseous degenera¬ 
tion here and there in right lung about the size of a pea. In: 
left lung, at apex, a small amount of tubercle. On opening 
abdomen there was about six ounces of partly coagulated blood 
immediately behind the diaphragm, and protruding through the 
walls of the reticulum was a common pin, which had punctured 
the diaphragm in several places. Hence the capricious appetite, 
for as the stomach contracted, forcing the pin against the dia¬ 
phragm, the pain caused him to stop eating and stand in the 
listless way we had noticed. 
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VAN SWIETEN SOLUTION IN THE TREATMENT OF SUPPURATIVE 
DISEASES OF JOINTS. 
The Revue Veterinaire of February reports two very interest¬ 
ing cases from the clinics of the Veterinary School of Toulouse, 
showing the great advantages and rapid results that were ob¬ 
tained by the use of the Van Swieten solution in the treatment 
of suppurative diseases of joints. The first case, which oc¬ 
curred in the service of Prof. Mauri, was one of suppurative 
traumatic arthritis of the fetlock, which, from the momemt 
the horse received his injuries to the time he was shown to the 
clinic, some fifteen days, had gradually grown worse, and 
was in the most serious condition, with excessive lameness, es¬ 
cape of diseased synovia, lancinating pains, general reacting 
symptoms, etc. The treatment consisted in free incisions of the 
fistulous tracts, the application of a coat of blistering ointment 
all around the joint as a counter-irritant, and repeated injections 
of the Van Swieten solution (3 quarts per day), every two hours. 
After four days great amelioration was manifested; five days 
later the discharge had entirely subsided, the wound was almost 
all healed, the lameness rapidly disappearing, and, after a short 
while the animal returned to his owner. 
The second case was that of an acute synovitis, following a 
wound of the sheath of the tendons of the anterior extensor of 
