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COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT. 
TREATMENT OF TETANUS. 
By Dr. Moret. 
Translated by F. W. Turner. 
The treatment consists in taking a rubber tube, about five feet 
in length and half an incli in diameter, one end of which is drawn 
over the neck of a long two ounce bottle, containing six drachms 
of ether, and the other end is introduced into the rectum about 
eight or ten inches. The bottle is then placed in a can of boiling 
water, and the ether is slowly evaporated, which will be accom¬ 
plished in about fifteen or twenty minutes. This procedure is re¬ 
peated four or five times a day; and to improve the treatment, 
half an ounce of chloral is given once a day in a liquid bran mash. 
Besides this, the patient is to be placed in a commodious box stall, 
and kept completely dark. The result of the treatment will soon 
show itself. Under the constant influence of partial anaesthesia, 
tlie temperature will soon commence to fall, the pulse falls below 
the normal in the course of two or three days, the spasmodic con¬ 
traction becomes gradually less, and in twenty to twenty-five days 
we may look for recovery. From six horses, treated in this 
manner by the writer in a year, five completely recovered, of 
which two suffered from complete tetanus, and three from trismic 
tetanus .—Der Thierarzt. 
COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT. 
AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
The fourth day of last month was the occasion of the com¬ 
mencement exercises of the American Veterinary College, and 
Chickering Hall, as in previous years, was the place selected for 
the observance. The stage was handsomely decorated with nu¬ 
merous magnificent floral designs, and the excellent orchestra of 
the Seventh Regiment executed a selected programme composed 
of the choicest gems contained in the repertoire of that unsur¬ 
passed band. The meteorological conditions out of doors were de¬ 
cidedly adverse, the rain pouring in torrents, though not quite in 
sufficient floods to drown out the interest of a sufficient number 
