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EDITORIAL. 
on Tuberculosis; circular 182 on the Spontaneous oxydation of 
arsenical dipping fluids, by A. V. Fuller of the Biochemic Divi¬ 
sion; circular 183, on directions for constructing a vat and dip¬ 
ping cattle to destroy ticks, by H. W. Graybell, D. V. M., and 
W. P. Ellenberger, D. V. S. 
A. L. 
AUTO THERAPY. 
In the September, 1909, issue of the American Veterinary 
Review, Professor Liautard chronicled the results of Autose¬ 
rotherapy in the treatment of sero-nbrinous pleurisy, which had 
been the subject of a communication from the Presse Medicale. 
We will not reproduce the article here, as our readers can refresh 
their memories on it bv referring to the original on pages 638-39 
in the number referred to. Suffice it to say, that the method de¬ 
scribed therein was the introduction of a Pravaz exploring needle 
into the chest, fill with the fluid from the chest cavity, and with¬ 
out withdrawing it entirely, it is carefully introduced under the 
skin and the contents are injected. Its result is to stimulate re¬ 
sorption of acute pleuritic effusion. The quantity of urine se¬ 
creted is suddenly increased; as much as three times the amount 
and sometimes more. Again in the January, 1910, number of 
the Review, page 408, Professor Liautard writes under the cap¬ 
tion of Autoserotherapy, speaking of the “new method much 
used in human medicine by German and French practitioners.” 
A physician in St. Petersburg, by the name of Marcou, had ap¬ 
plied it to eighty-two individuals, every one of whom had re¬ 
covered, and from his experience he believed that it was ap¬ 
plicable to all carriers of a serous or even hemorrhagic effusion; 
pus only being contraindicated. The same article relates the ex¬ 
periments of a Dr. Bourget in a communication to the Sixteenth 
International Congress of Medicine at Budapest, which treats of 
the clinical results of serotherapy in general, which are not so 
encouraging. Again, it is the mission of the Review to record 
experiments with autotherapy; this time not autoserotherapy, and 
