American Veterinary Review. 
SEPTEMBER, 1901. 
All communications for publication or in reference thereto should be addressed to Prof. 
Roscoe R. Bell, Seventh Ave. 6° Union St., Borough of Brooklyn, New York City. 
EDITORIAL. 
EUROPEAN CHRONICLES. 
Electrocution. —In the May issue of the Review I gave 
the information that a series of experiments had been started 
under the auspices of the Societe de Medecine Veterinaire Prat¬ 
ique to observe the general.manifestations exhibited by horses 
which had received a stroke from a continuous current of electri¬ 
city, to establish the essential conditions to kill the animal and 
to find out the nature and the extent of the lesions which would 
be found at post-mortem. 
Those experiments have been carried out, and the report has 
been made by Mr. E. Rossignol, secretary of the committee which 
regulated the whole work. 
From this report, I send extracts, which are published in this 
issue, and which I hope will prove interesting to our readers. 
The experiments have shown that some special conditions 
are required for a horse to be killed by even a very strong 
current—and that is that contact should remain established 
for some time with the poles giving the electric current. If on 
the contrary the contact is arrested immediately after the stroke 
has been received death will not only not take place, but the 
animal will rapidly recuperate from the effect ; and from this an 
important indication presents itself, viz. : when a horse falls 
down and remains down , in contact with the pole , he must be 
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