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be proven before legal responsibility is sustained, as per your 
definition of veterinary jurisprudence. 
Very truly, 
L. McLean, M. R. C. V. S. 
AN ORIGINAE TREATMENT FOR ATROPHY OF MUSCLES. 
' Belvidkrk, III., July 12, 1898. 
Editors American Veterinary Review : 
Dear Sirs :—I wish you would publish in your valuable 
medium of thought (the Review) this formula, as I never saw 
it in any of my veterinary journals or text-books. It 'is for 
“ sweeny,” or atrophy of any muscle : 
^ Argenti nit., grs. x. 
Aquae, § i. 
M. Sig. Inject hypodermically over muscle half a drachm every 
five or six inches ; repeat in two or three weeks, or as soon as swelling 
subsides. 
I find this much better than the unsightly setons or blisters. 
Yours truly, 
F. B. Rowan. 
REVIEW OF BIOLOGY. 
Protecting Action of the Liver Against Carbun- 
CULAR Infection \^By M. Rogers '\.—To appreciate the condi¬ 
tions of the struggle between the organism and pathogenous 
agents in capillaries, the author injected rabbits and guinea 
pigs, in various parts of the circulatory apparatus, with cul¬ 
tures of anthrax virus. The results vary with the blood-vessel 
which has given entrance to the culture. Death occurs in from 
36 hours to three days after, according to the dose and as the 
injection is made in the aorta, the femoral artery, peripheric 
veins or the peripheric end of the carotid. But, when it is 
made in an intestinal vein, running to the portal vein, animals 
will live indefinitely. Then the liver plays a protecting pait, 
efficacious and powerful, which is more marked in infections 
than in intoxications. * A toxic dose, double that which would 
be fatal through the peripheric veins, is unable to kill when in¬ 
troduced in the portal vein. A quantity of anthrax virus, 
sixty-four times superior to that which kills by the peripheric 
veins, is completely annihilated by the liver. This figure, al¬ 
ready large, may be below reality; because, when animals suc¬ 
cumb after inoculation by the portal vein, the question may al¬ 
ways be put: Has the entire injected liquid gone tlirough the 
