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was considerable loss of substance ; the wound on the coronet 
showed no tendency to heal in spite of different antiseptics and 
caustics used. The second day after the application of a moist 
dressing of the argentum citrate there was very little discharge ; 
wound had a healthy appearance and healed completely in 9 
days. 
III. Bay mare had bad synovitis on the near hind fetlock ; 
the joint was opened in three places and the probe could be 
passed through the joint. There was a profuse infected syn¬ 
ovial discharge. Treatment consisted of injections of argen¬ 
tum colloidale, 1:500; on the fourth day the joint was closed, 
and the wound healed nicely ; the animal was put to work on 
the 24th day from the beginning of the treatment. 
IV. Bay mare, with fistulous withers, belonging to a veteri¬ 
narian, who was disgusted with treating the animal and sent it to 
the hospital.. A free incision was made, after treatment con¬ 
sisting of injections with citrate of silver, 1:1000. There was 
very little discharge following the treatment, and the animal 
was sent home cured after four weeks. 
I could report a great many other cases in which I obtained 
the best of results with these salts, but knowing that there are 
always some who can not obtain the results expected, I will not 
praise them too highly. 
The drugs were procured by Dr. W. J. Coates, and with his 
permission I applied them in the American Veterinary Hos¬ 
pital. I take this opportunity to extend my thanks to him for 
his aid in my investigations and experiments, in which he is 
always very liberal to me. 
Hoping I have interested you in describing drugs which 
are almost unknown to veterinarians, and considering we are to 
keep step with the new discoveries in the line of therapeutics, 
I think I have fulfilled mv mission. 
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The DivE Stock Insurance Company, which has operated 
. in New York and Brooklyn for a number of years to the discom¬ 
fort of many practitioners, has gone the way of all predecessors. 
