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mortem examination of such cases the arteries were found to be full of 
black blood. He would like to hear Professor Walley’s opinion on 
that point. 
Mr. Morgan said that he used to have great faith in external stimu¬ 
lation, but he did not rely on it so much now, especially in pleurisy and 
pneumonia. He did not approve of applying mustard even in those cases, 
and he could not see the force of the Professor’s recommendation to bleed 
and apply external stimulants during a crisis in such cases. As to giving 
Liq. Ammoniae fort, in a colic draught, it required so much care in 
measuring the dose, and having it properly diluted to prevent excoria¬ 
tion of the mouth, that it was a very dangerous remedy for ordinary 
use; he preferred the Sp. Ammon. Aromat. In cattle practice, he said, 
good whiskey was an excellent stimulant, and the Professor would find 
that in Scotland it was generally very handy. He concluded by 
thanking the Professor for his very practical and exhaustive paper. 
Mr. Stevenson said that while he could not but express his admiration 
of the paper which they had heard, yet he could not agree with the 
Professor in recommending that ammomia be given along with alcohol, as 
their physiological actions are quite opposed to each other, ammonia 
being given as ail antidote for an over-dose of alcohol. 
Mr. T. Greaves , in explanation to Mr. Morgan’s remarks, said that he 
had experienced no bad results from the administration of Liq. 
Ammoniae fort.; he administered it in half-drachm doses in a pint of 
water, and if that dose did not accomplish the desired effect he increased 
the dose from half that quantity to as much again ; when you excoriate 
the mouth, and thus stimulate the buccal and whole mucous membrane ; 
your patient generally does well. If you mix ammonia in linseed oil 
it does not produce the same beneficial effects. In parturient apoplexy 
he considered that the carbonate of ammonia was a better stimulant than 
whisky. He had given as much as two ounces every hour continually 
for six hours together to a cow. 
Dr. Greenway referred to the tendency of the human mind to rebound 
from one extreme to another, and in nothing was this more manifest than 
in the history of medicine. Fifty or sixty years ago phlebotomy was 
almost universally resorted to as a remedy for every kind and character 
of disease, and at the present time it was just as universally abandoned. 
He considered that this was a great mistake, and related the history 
of a case of bronchitis which came under his care when a young 
practitioner, which convinced him that phlebotomy was a remedy of great 
value when judiciously resorted to. In this case expectorants were 
tried, the inhalation of steam, and the stimulative system of treatment 
adopted, but with no beneficial results. He then determined to try 
phlebotomy, followed by the internal administration of ammonia, which 
produced immediate beneficial results, the patient finally recovering. He 
said that the blood when first drawn was very thick and syrupy, but 
it gradually became brighter. He said when the bronchial tubes become 
blocked up with gelatinous mucus the blood becomes carbonised, no 
air can get to it, and internal congestion follows. You relieve this 
condition by phlebotomy ; the heart is assisted, the blood gets arte- 
rialised, the lungs relieved, and the viscid mucus is thrown out. In 
reference to ammonia as a general stimulant, he (Dr. Greenway) 
considered that, in human practice, they had a better stimulant than 
carbonate of ammonia in sulphuric ether. Alcohol, he said, dried up 
the secretions, but ether stimulated the secretory organs even better 
than ammonia, and in some forms of disease of the kidney, such as the 
“ white fatty degeneration,” in which the urea in blood became decom- 
