SYNOPSIS OF CONTINENTAL VETERINARY JOURNALS. 295 
M. Baillet, the distinguished Veterinary Surgeon to the 
Municipality of Bordeaux, and Inspector General of the 
Department of Meat Inspection. The first edition appeared 
in 1871. M. Baillet has been working on untrodden ground 
and “ not by any means the least merit of the work is that 
it has enlarged the field where the veterinary profession 
may perform its useful part.” In the Recueil de Medecme 
Veterinaire, 15th March, 1880, is a useful Modification of 
the Surgical Treatment of Pundent Collections in the Facial 
Sinuses , as read before the Society of Practical Veterinary 
Medicine, on the 11th of February, by M. Friez, Veterinary 
Surgeon to the General Carriage Company of Paris. The 
ordinary operation may be usefully modified and replaced by 
a much more simple method, which for many years past has 
been adopted by M. Thiebaut, a colleague of mine. This 
new method of treatment consists in suppression of the two 
openings made with the trephine and throwing injection 
into the cavity of the sinus through the small opening neces¬ 
sarily made in exploration of the diseased parts. This I make 
at about 1 inch above the zygomatic crest, and at about 1J in. 
from its inferior extremity. As wounds of the face close 
very rapidly, and as losses of substance in that region become 
repaired with great facility, whence the wound cicatrises 
too rapidly, I find it necessary to make cross cuts in 
lines through the skin, meeting at the perforation into the 
diseased sinus; this crucial incision results in the forma¬ 
tion of four flaps of skin, which retracts during healing, 
leaving the bone and the perforation through it uncovered. 
I then introduce into the opening a small peg of aloes cut 
level with the skin; this serves to prevent closure of the 
opening through the bone and exerts an astringent influ¬ 
ence upon the wound, and prevents it from bleeding every 
time an injection is made through it. The first injection 
consists of slightly warmed water to wash out the sinus; 
this is especially necessary in long-standing cases, when 
the pus has acquired a certain amount of consistence which 
prevents its escape before it has been somewhat diluted ; 
next must be thrown in the fluid which is intended to alter 
the secretions of the mucous membranes. 
Camphorated alcohol (10—100) gives good results, but I 
prefer a mixture of equal parts of water and glycerin, with 
a small quantity of carbolic acid. When the secretion com¬ 
mences to flow, the employment of glycerin in a pure state 
will sometimes cause it to disappear, as if by enchantment, in 
the course of a few days. I hit upon this glycerin treat¬ 
ment quite by accident. These injections I throw in two or 
