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infected wounds, while then the tincture cannot. In laparotomy, 
they used it to protect from infection the stump of an amputated 
uterus. In ulcers, in some cases of fistulas, rebellious to all treat¬ 
ment, as in one case following an abscess which had been treated 
for two months before and which was closed in ten days after 
free incision, and a small quantity of iodoform treated with the 
thermo cautery. One case of osteitis of the humerus is also re¬ 
ported as improved. They also tried it in some forms of cancer, 
in auricular catarrh and in some specific skin diseases. 
This method of application is certainly too recent to be fully 
appreciated, but from what has been said of it and of the results 
obtained in humans, and in veterinary medicine, I thought it of 
sufficient value to deserve the attention of the readers of the 
Review. 
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Intermittent Lameness. —Does intermittent lameness of 
the hind quarters, due to the obstruction of some of the arteries 
of that part of the body, to thrombosis of the posterior aorta, the 
iliacs and their branches, that lameness which was observed by 
Bouley, Jr., in 1831, then by Gurlt in 1838, Herting in 1843, an< 3 
which Goubaux found so common that he said it existed in more 
than 5 per cent, of the subjects he used for his anatomical works, 
and which after being noticed by many observers, finally came 
down to us with its successive series of symptoms, always the 
same in their appearance: does, in other words, the peripheric in¬ 
termittent lameness by ischemia belong* essentially or at least 
more particularly to solipeds—leaving aside the extremely rare 
similar cases that have been recorded in cattle, which, according 
to Cadeac, have been observed once by Haas in Germany, three 
times by Gualducci in Italy and once by Fordic in England? 
The symptomatology of this affection is so characteristic, its 
mode of development, the nature of its manifestations are all so 
specific, that the diagnosis is perhaps almost one of the easiest 
upon which a practitioner has to decide. Indeed and for that 
