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After injecting - a little of the peroxide of hydrogen, I sent 
the mare home with instructions to bathe frequently with 
cold water and use that same injection, cautioning the owner 
against using any but a rubber or glass syringe, confidently 
expecting that the mare would make a nice recovery; but in 
about a week the owner brought her to me, saying he was afraid 
he was going to lose her ; and she was indeed in a deplor¬ 
able condition, the whole region of the withers was intensely 
inflamed and swollen. I was myself at a loss for an expla¬ 
nation of such a state of affairs, and, however, assured him 
that his horse was in a nowise dangerous condition, telling 
him to take her back to his stable, and put several folds of a 
heavy woolen blanket over the inflamed parts and pour 
three buckets of water over it three times a day. A few days 
ago I visited the animal and found the swelling and inflam¬ 
mation entirely gone, but a considerable flow of pus through 
the opening I had made. Wishing to use the peroxide of 
hydrogen again, I asked him to get what he had and inject 
some of it, when I discovered that he was in the habit of 
pouring it out into a tin cup and then injecting it into the 
wound, pouring what he didn’t use back into the bottle 
again. * I think that this fully accounts for the former un¬ 
favorable action of the medicament. 
OSTEO POROSIS. 
By C L. Thudioum. 
I send you the following on the successful treatment of a 
case of osteo porosis by myself, hoping it may prove of some 
benefit to some of my more fortunate brethren who possess 
the desirable sheepskin, and I hope shortly to gratify my 
ambition of having one myself. 
In March of last year, while training some race-horses at 
Gloucester, N. J., I had an old colored trainer come to me to 
see if I could do anything for a colt which had been given 
him because it had the bighead. I told him that there was 
no cure for the disease that 1 knew of, that there was any 
certainty in, but that the only thing that seemed to prove in 
any way beneficial as far as I could learn, was to give him a 
