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These neoplasms, while abundant in animals of the slaugh¬ 
ter houses, but seldom come before the w attention of the pro¬ 
fession as factors in equine pathology. T. has had occasion 
to treat a glossitis in the horse, which was directly due to an 
infection of this micro-organism. A half-blooded gelding ten 
years of age, the property of a farmer, had manifested diffi¬ 
culty in prehension and mastication for some time, and was 
further inconvenienced by T a profuse salivation. An empiric 
had removed the apices of the molar teeth as being the cause 
of the complaint. 
Our local examinations exposed an inflammation of the 
tongue, especially at the point where it was swollen, hard 
stiff and painful. Upon the superior surface of the organ, and 
about three inches from the anterior contour, five small swell¬ 
ings, each the size of a bean, were noticeable; the tissue ad¬ 
jacent to these was deeply reddened. The veins upon the 
lateral surfaces were congested and varicose. A fistula had 
formed by the confluence of two of the tumors, and by pres¬ 
sure a caseous discharge flowed from the tract. This latter 
was composed of many granules, which by the microscrope 
exhibited the characteristic features of the actinomyces. 
. In each of the tumors T. made a deep incision which he 
daily pencilled with iodine tincture. Internally, the patient 
received 3 iv of potassium iodide daily in a bottle of water. 
After twenty days the swellings and the symptoms which 
they induced had disappeared. — Berlin Thier. Woch. 
SPERMA IN VARIOUS GLANDS—BROWN-SEQUARD’S PANACEA. 
Brown-Sequard found in the testicle secretion an agent 
capable of inducing nervous activity in all its diversified com¬ 
plications ; * his discovery has been wrongly used, and con¬ 
sidered as an aphrodisiac only. The ancients knew the med¬ 
icinal worth of the testicle product; the Gallic preparations 
of the castoreum and musk sack were known as stimulating 
agents—one of the constituents of the latter is the material 
under consideration. Brown-Sequard injected a watery 
* Berlin Thier. Woch., 1892, p. 584. 
