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ity of the cure is proportioned to the promptness with which 
administration of the remedy follows the commencement of 
i disease. 
2d. The hypodermic injection of pilocarpine rapidly relieves 
) subacute inflammation of the brain, and prevents the immo- 
ity which is often one of the terminations of the disease. 
3d. Where the immobility has existed for a long period, and 
of medium intensity, the treatment by pilocarpine does not 
went the occurrence of another attack; but the second attack 
1 generally be relieved permanently by another injection of the 
pg- 
4th. Very old cases pf immobility have always been some- 
at improved by the pilocarpine, but radical cure has never been 
tained. 
To resume: the treatment recommended by M. Klemm pre- 
its the complication of immobility in cases of chronic encepha- 
s, cures commencing immobility, and improves the symptoms 
the old form of disease. Without being a heroic or infallible 
>de of treatment, it has proved itself to be a really useful 
e.— Bee. de Med. Vet. 
“ w TREATMENT OF ITCH IN SHEEP BY NICOTINE. 
Doctors Kaiser and Arnold, of Hanover, have experimented 
th this drug in the treatment of the disease in question. The 
iep were placed for three minutes in a bath, containing two 
rts in three hundred, and then well rubbed with a brush, and 
jlit days after another bath was administered, and the animals 
sre radically cured. Nicotine acts better than tobacco in the 
jatment of parasitic cutaneous diseases of our domestic ani- 
ils.— Thierzt. 
TREATMENT OF COLICS IN HORSES. 
By M. Klemm. 
He uses pilocarpine, in sub-cutaneous injections, in doses vary- 
* from five to eight denigrams, increased to one or two 
arnmes, according to the size of the animal. 
