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EDITORIAL. 
French veterinarian, viz.: (i) An animal in a very anaemic 
condition and in a fearful state of debility, which disabled him 
entirely, was, after a few injections of the Seqiiardian fluid, able 
to resume his work and return to his healthy condition ; (2) an¬ 
other, which, on account of an attack of locomotor ataxia, was 
perfectly useless, was also relieved by several injections (with 
him the treatment was rather long and tedious) ; (3) after re¬ 
ceiving a large wound of the gluteal region, which would have 
demanded probably months for healing, an animal was able to 
resume his work with a complete cicatrization in a few weeks; 
(4) a horse disabled by rheumatism ; (5) others suffering with 
old chronic articular synovitis; (6) a dog affected with epilepsy. 
All were more or less benefited by the treatment of the subcu¬ 
taneous injections “ a la Brown-Seqiiard ” of 10 c. c. for large 
and 2 c. c. for small animals. The general and local effects 
were in all the cases comparatively of no great importance, and 
evidently the specific influences of the treatment were those of 
a gentle tonic and stimulant to the general organism. 
It is certain that the valuable results obtained by this veteri¬ 
narian, and which he has recorded in a paper presented at the 
Societe Centrale de Medecine Veterinaire by Prof. Mousser, are 
deserving of a certain amount of attention ; but there is a very 
important question which is likely to prevent its free admission 
in daily practice. This is the price of the preparation. It is a 
costly experiment, and on that account the treatment will most 
likely be ignored by the hard working practitioner. Those of 
our friends who have tried the application of serotherapy in the 
treatment of tetanus know already pretty well how expensive it 
is—the dose for one injection of Brown-Sequard liquid costs 
two or three times as much—and the number of injections re¬ 
quired is such that only excessively valuable animals, the prop¬ 
erty of no less excessively wealthy owners, can be submitted 
to it. 
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Epizootic Abortion.— Much has been written on this sub¬ 
ject, and in the United States, where the disease occurs more or 
