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few minutes had a free evacuation of bowels. Continued 
medicine in same doses at longer intervals, until 40 ounces had 
been given. Patient improving after each dose, but every time 
she attempted to move the anterior limbs gave way, the patient 
falling, with muscles of the neck tightly drawn, bringing the 
head backward to near the shoulders ; patient soon assumed a 
standing posture. At 8 o’clock A. M. left her standing, without 
any medicine, not returning until 5 o’clock p. M. During this 
interval she had no medicine and was frequently falling down 
and getting up. On my arrival found patient much worse, 
eyes set in head, jaws clenched, deglutition nearly suspended. 
Continued same medicine in same doses, but it was almost im¬ 
possible to administer. On lifting head above a level, she 
would fall and go into paroxysms, but shortly regaining her 
feet. Continued medicine, spilling nearly half of it, but noting 
improvement after each dose. After 48 ounces in all had been 
given, left her for the night much improved. Called in mor¬ 
ning, patient still improving; able to chew two or three nub¬ 
bins of corn and drink a little water. Flow of milk fair, bowels 
normal, urine evacuated freely, locomotion much improved, 
gave fluid extract of mix vomica in twenty-minim doses, every 
four hours, to tone up digestive organs. Patient convalesced 
finely and made a perfect recovery with no lesions, except slight 
paralysis. __ 
PEROXIDE IN THE TREATMENT OF BURNT WOUNDS. 
By Francis Arele, Quincy, Mass. 
During our terrible snow storm of last February was asked 
to attend a horse that had had a live trolley wire fall on it. As 
when fresh from college, the thought came, “ What shall I do?” 
I could not do as my student used to do, read it up before start¬ 
ing, for I had no literature ou the subject. I decided to see 
him and treat from symptoms. 
Found patient in a stable, eating heartily. When led out, 
he was bright and alert, but very much like a bashful girl, did 
not want to be handled. 
The full length of one side was a brand where the wire had 
burned through the skin and part of the flesh. The same was 
true of the inside of one hind leg in several large lines. On the 
point of one shoulder was a raised mass, the skin of which 
seemed dry and toughened like the sit-fast of an old saddle sore. 
I applied and left linseed oil, sodium bicarbonate and laudanum. 
The next day he was led home and the same with boracic acid 
