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Analysis of Continental Journals. 
By W. Ernes, M.B.C.V.S., London. 
Clinique Veterinaire, Toulon, Feb., 1868. 
A CASE OE TETANUS CURED BY AMMONIA. 
By M. Allegre, Yeterinary Surgeon at Calmar (Barses Alpes). 
The subject of this case was a donkey of large size; the 
symptoms were general rigidity; the head, neck, and jaws 
moved with difficulty, the body and legs were in a state of 
complete immobility, and the animal was unable to take any 
nourishment. The treatment consisted of bleeding, frictions 
on the spine with camphorated liniment; setons were placed 
on the chest; decoction of poppies, opiates in enemas, &c., 
had no effect. The author was advised by a medical friend 
to try what he called a new remedy, viz., to make the animal 
swallow from eight to ten minims of volatile alkali in half a 
litre of water; this treatment had often succeeded in the 
human subject. 
The first day of this treatment there was no amelioration; 
on the second there was a slight improvement; on the third 
the muscles were slightly relaxed, and the animal was able 
to swallow'; on the fourth the patient could masticate; from 
that day the improvement continued, and the animal com¬ 
pletely recovered. 
TWO CASES OE CARBON. 
By M. Barthelemy. 
The subject of the disease was a mule about ten years 
old. The animal seemed to be slightly indisposed ; did not 
feed well; the pulse was slightly increased ; respiration regu¬ 
lar. Rest was enjoined with half rations, but, however, he 
became gradually worse up to the fifth day, when the symp¬ 
toms were most severe: discharge of a reddish colour from 
the nose had set in ; the mucous membrane was of a yellow 
tinge; the lymphatic glands w'ere also enlarged. At night 
these symptoms were much aggravated, the conjunctiva was 
more injected, the eyelids swollen, and some petechial spots 
were observed; the animal drank less than in the morning. 
The discharge had now become bloody, the nose and lips 
were swollen, the respiration was sibilant, the urine oily. 
