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plication of an antiseptic dressing, the mare seemed to im¬ 
prove, and her wound to assume an aspect which promised 
rapid cicatrization. Two weeks from the day of the opera¬ 
tion, however, the animal did not seem so well. Her temper¬ 
ature had risen, her pulse counting 74 beats to the minute, and 
so small and thready as to be almost imperceptible. She had 
frequent chills ; her skin was cold, and her breath had a slight 
foetid odor. Auscultation showed the respiratory murmur 
louder, though in places it seemed diminished, and even 
absent; percussion revealed little more than perhaps some 
dullness, more marked towards the lower border of the left 
lung ; the wound of the face looked badly, the discharge hav¬ 
ing entirely subsided. Later in the day an abundant epistaxis 
occurred, with purulent, bloody discharge escaping from the 
nose, and the patient died after twenty-four hours of great 
agony. 
All the lesions of purulent injection were observed at the 
post-mortem, the pleura, the lungs, the entire respiratory 
tract, the heart and the parenchymatous organs of the abdom¬ 
inal cavity, all participating, and confirming the diagnosis 
made by the author, a diagnosis which he had also established 
by the inoculation of guinea-pigs .—Recueil de Med. Vet. 
ANOTHER CASE OF UNILATERAL PLEURISY—RECOVERY BY THE 
GRADED COUNTER-IRRITATION. 
By Me. Minette. 
After describing the symptoms which were presented to 
him by a twelve-or-thirteen-year-old mare, from which he 
was led to form a diagnosis of unilateral pleurisy of the right 
side, the author concluded to resort to the application of a 
severe liniment, at first under the chest, and then renewed 
every day by the gradual increase of the surface over which 
it was applied, the application to be persevered in until the 
respiration at the flank became evidently improved in its 
character. With this treatment, diuretics and food of easy 
digestion were prescribed. The animal had so far recovered 
within a week that she was allowed slow work, and two 
