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spondingly fixed. I now let go the bottle, and grasp the 
two bands of thread, which I bring to the point where the 
cords of the bandage embrace the neck of the bottle, and I 
fix them there by a double knot. The employment of this 
pessary, while easy and convenient, has always enabled me to 
retain the vagina or uterus after return without presenting 
any of those inconveniences which attend the use of other 
forms. But there are certain cases where a glass bottle does 
not do; when the mucous membrane of the uterus is bruised 
and torn, its employment would give rise to formidable 
metritis. In such a case it is necessary to make use of a 
bottle of smooth wood with its bottom pierced. The opening 
which corresponds to the neck of the uterus allows various 
fluids and the debris of the torn and mortified mucous mem¬ 
brane to escape in consequence of the expulsive efforts which 
the animal makes to relieve itself of them. This arrange¬ 
ment also enables me to inject liquids into the womb with 
facility, so as to hasten the elimination of products which 
might tend to accumulate there. The advantages of the 
procedure with the bottle are:—(1) By its volume, which 
plugs the vaginal canal through two thirds of its length, 
it almost instantaneously paralyses the expulsive efforts of 
the subject of the operation. (2) By its form it does not 
prove a preventive to the expulsion of urine, for the meatus 
urinarius corresponds to the narrowing of the neck. (3) Its 
smooth surface can neither tear nor injure the vaginal walls. 
(4) It can without inconvenience be left in for five days, or 
even a month, for it causes no irritation of the organ with 
which it is in contact. In ordinary cases twenty-four to 
forty-eight hours suffice to counteract the return of the 
prolapsus.” In the same number Professor Mauri , having 
discussed the question —“ Ought we to consider Leucocy- 
thaemia as a disease per se ?” comes to the conclusions :— 
ct 1st. That leucocythaemia is not a particular morbid entity. 
2nd. That it is only one inconstant form of a pathological 
condition of clearly ascertained clinical nature. 3rd. That 
lymphatic an&mia of Hodgkin and leucocythcemia are only 
two forms of the same morbid state.” 
M. Serres, in the Recueil for the 80th March, 1880, re¬ 
commends injection of ether in cases of tympanitis of the 
horse. He supports this plan of treatment by enumeration 
of three cases :—“ I. In the month of May, at Batna, we 
were called into the town to see a young, well-furnished 
Arab horse, which belonged to a carriage proprietor. The 
animal was affected with acute colic of unknown cause, 
with no very marked symptoms, except abdominal distension, 
