EDITORIAL. 
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Azoturia—New Treatment. —Of all the diseases which 
practitioners hate to be called to treat, there is probably none 
which is more distasteful than azoturia. The forms of treat¬ 
ment which are resorted to are generally so unsatisfactory and 
the sequelae or convalescence sometimes so severe and tedious 
that anything new which is likely to give better results must 
always be of interest. It is for that reason that I record the 
new treatment which I heard discussed at a recent meeting of 
one of the veterinary societies in Paris, after the reading of a 
paper on the subject presented by MM. Guillemard and Chigot. 
This treatment, besides the general bleeding and revulsive 
frictions on the back, usually resorted to in French practice, 
consists principally in the administration subcutaneously of 
bromhydrate of arecoline, given in subcutaneous injections at 
the dose of 8 centigrammes, renewed twice a day. By this 
treatment the authors claimed four recoveries out of four cases 
occurring in a space of time varying between four and nine 
days. 
If one takes in consideration that hsemoglobinuria is one of 
the diseases which occasion proportionately the greatest mor¬ 
tality, and against which in most cases the veterinarian re¬ 
mains powerless, such results, small as they may be in num¬ 
ber, justify a fair trial. By its properties as a diaphoretic and 
by its action upon the intestinal tract, bromhydrate of arecoline 
is certainly indicated, and may prove very satisfactory. I do 
not know if bleeding and counter-irritation can be considered 
as good adjuncts, and I believe that in the States these are 
rather ignored, but if the arecoline salt has the power claimed 
for it by the French authors, there is no doubt that it can be 
combined to advantage with the milder forms which we use in 
America instead of venesection and counter-irritation, which 
give rise to so much struggling on the part of a poor paralytic 
animal, which by them is soon unnerved, exhausted, and too 
often covered with enormous bed sores. 
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Rabies. —In their excellent work, “Maladies Contagieuses,” 
