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liar to itself. In conclusion, I would say if you elect to call 
“bursatie” “lupus/* then you at once abolish the order 
tubercular, and in its place describe one disease, calling it 
“ tubercular/* 
CARBOLIC ACID. 
By the Same. 
Of late there has been a certain amount of discussion 
upon the subject of the internal exhibition of remedies pos¬ 
sessing antiseptic qualities, in the treatment of infectious 
diseases. It is admitted that certain disinfectants have the 
power of rendering morbific matter inert; and also of de¬ 
stroying animalculse and fungi ; it is only reasonable, there¬ 
fore, to presume that similar results would follow their internal 
administration. Recent experiments have demonstrated the 
morbific matter of infectious diseases to be a material poison; 
this is also proved by inoculation. 
Chauveau, by continued experiments, has given good proof 
that the contagion of glanders is a solid, insoluble in water 
and indiffusible. Unfortunately, the highest aids that can 
be brought to bear upon these nosophytic particles have 
failed to show their physical characters, but the fact of the 
reproductive power of the particles goes a long way towards 
proving that they are living bodies, and upon this view is 
founded the so-called antiseptic treatment of diseases. I 
would draw the reader’s attention to Chauveau on the nature 
of virus; his experiments are of great value and interest. 
Mr. Gfreenliill, Y.S., and I, in 1869, prescribed Calvert’s 
crystallised carbolic acid internally with the same view with 
which it is now being tried. I have recently used it again 
with the same results as those which were obtained in 1869. 
In the year mentioned we experimented with the agent, pre¬ 
scribing it internally to horses who fell victims to the attack 
of a fever which was prevalent at the time. It was a con¬ 
tinued fever of some days’ duration, attended with rapid 
prostration and derangement of the mental and bodily func¬ 
tions with frequent cerebral symptoms, and in many cases a 
peculiar slight eruption on the skin. There was distinct 
evidence of blood poisoning. 
An account of the same fever may be found in the Veteri¬ 
narian for December, 1868, by J. Richardson, Y.S., 16th 
Lancers, Bungalore, Madras Presidency. 
We may glean from the experiments made by P. Cullen, 
