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EDITORIAL. 
which are to be submitted to the fumes of iodine are dusted with 
iodoform and the point of the thermo is brought near it so that 
the rising of the iodine fumes is easily produced. This last 
method is one which might be advantageously resorted to in 
veterinary practice. 
The therapeutic indications of the use of fumes of iodine are 
quite numerous, and generally speaking they may be considered 
as the same where iodine in its various forms ought to be ap¬ 
plied: either as counter irritant, alone or combined with the ap¬ 
plication of points of cauterization, as antiphlogistic, as alterative, 
in scrofulous swellings, as antiseptic, as disinfecting agents. 
In human medicinei the method has already been advan¬ 
tageously employed in furuncles, anthrax, chronic wounds and 
simple ulcers, ichorous, in cutaneous, glandular, or scrofulous le¬ 
sions, in osteo-myelitis or bony caries, in oto-rhinology, old 
auricular affections, sinusitis. Without having specific qualities, 
it brings wounds to more healthy, cicatrizing progress. It has 
also been used with success under a different form, viz.: by the 
aspiration of the fumes into a glass syringe when it has been pos¬ 
sible, then to inject articular cavities and treat severe synositis. 
In gynecology and also in dermatology the method has given 
good results. 
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Local therapeuty with fumes of iodine is only entering in the 
domain of surgery and many must be the cases where it will be 
applied and their records be made public before it has passed the 
experimental state. Let us wait. But at the same time let us now 
put on record the experiments that were reported lately in the 
Revue de Pathologie Comparee by Mr. Lepinay, a veterinarian, 
and Dr. J. Chalut. 
These gentlemen have made of the method daily applications 
in their practice. Recent wounds were treated without being 
obliged to resort to the application of a dressing, which they con¬ 
sider an advantage. They recommend that the fumes be used in 
