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of no avail. I should have remarked that the growth bled 
freely on the slightest provocation. He told me to go ahead 
and do what I thought best, which I might say, was the re¬ 
moval of the eye, as the growth was so large it was impossi¬ 
ble for the animal to bring the lids over it. I cast the horse 
and chloroformed him, removed the eye, with a very little 
loss of blood, filling up the cavity with absorbent cotton, and 
tinct. chlor. fer., which I allowed to remain for twenty-four 
hours. I then removed it and inserted cotton, with a twenty 
per cent, solution of carbolic acid. I performed the opera¬ 
tion on the morning of July 15th and up to date the 
patient is doing splendidly, eating his bran mashes three times 
a day with nit. potass. 3 ss. in each feed. 
ANTIFIBRINE IN VETERINARY MEDICINE. 
By O. Bonvioini. 
The experiments here referred to were tried upon thirteen 
horses suffering with influenza (thoracic form); seven affected 
with severe angina ; one colt sick with suppurative pleurisy, 
following a pulmonary abscess, and another having rheuma- 
tismal polyarthritis. Trials made upon two healthy donkeys 
had proved that ten grammes of the drug could be given with¬ 
out danger. 
With doses varying between eight and ten grammes, the 
temperature was always lowered, even in the most severe 
cases. The hypothermia began about one hour after the ad¬ 
ministration of the drug, and reached its height after three or 
four hours, remaining stationary for two, three or four hours, 
and then returning to its original point. Generally, one dose 
was sufficient to modify the thermic curve for a period of six 
to ten hours; if a longer effect is desired, a second dose may 
be given without fear, but this will not produce a new de¬ 
pression of the temperature, and if this has a tendency to rise 
its elevation is only retarded. During the remissions thus 
produced by the drug, a well marked improvement in the 
general state of the patients was observed ; collapse or func¬ 
tional disturbances have never been seen, A lowering of the 
