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Gentlemen,—I have often felt that this treatment, heroic 
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>ugh it be, might be had recourse to with benefit in the human 
)ject. I know that sentiment would oppose itself to the sug- 
. tion, but 1 would ask is it not better that a man who has been 
rortunate enough to contract this loathsome disease should be 
>rived of the means of infecting others, and be himself 
tored to at least a moderate degree of capacity for enjoyment 
the pleasures of life than that he should be allowed to drag 
a miserable existence and remain a probable means of dis- 
linating his infirmity ? 
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The Abortive Treatment of Actinomycosis. 
In recent issues of our professional journals, 1 observe that 
' • J* B. Gresswell has drawn attention to the treatment of 
nomycosis by the application of phenol and iodine (iodized 
mol.) 
I may be pardoned if I suggest that he directs attention 
his combination of disinfectants in such a manner as to lead to 
i supposition that it is new to the veterinary profession. 
In a paper read by me about two years ago at Belfast, I 
icted attention to the great value of a combination of iodine 
phenol as a local application in infective forms of inflamma- 
'> such as the inoculative leisons in pleuro-pneumonia and in 
*arinosis, and it was from observing the beneficial effects fol- 
ing its use under these circumstances, that I was led to advise 
employment (to my pupils and to practitioners) in the abortive 
tment of actinomycosis—a disease, I need scarcely remark, 
ntially local in its origin and capable of being arrested in its 
p’ess by purely local means. Amongst those to whom 1 recom- 
ded its use was Mr. L. Leach, who at the meeting of the 
polnshire Veterinary Medical Association, held at Grantham 
ie early part of the year, informed me that he had successfully 
ied out this method of treatment. 
During the past summer, while on a visit at the house of my 
preceptor, Mr. Kettle, of Market Drayton, I advised his 
tant, Mr. Bickell, to carry out the treatment in a well-marked 
in a cow. Mr. Rickell advises me that the treatment was 
e successful. 
