American Veterinary Review. 
SEPTEMBER, 1898. 
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EDITORIAL. 
EUROPEAN CHRONICLES. 
Saline Transfusions in Veterinary Medicine.— 
Washing of the blood by subcutaneous injections of saline 
solutions is a process of therapeutics which has received yet but 
little attention in veterinary medicine, and which by the recent 
publications of Mr. Bimes, of the Toulouse Veterinary School, 
and of Mr. Bissauge, has become for the moment the question 
of the order of the day. In a series of long articles published 
in the Revue Veterinaire^ the former has given the history of 
this therapeutical process, as it was first applied in human 
medicine (origin of the method, its object, the means put into 
use, the physiological effects, its therapeutic applications). It 
is this last paragraph which deserves the attention of veterina¬ 
rians. Lock-jaw, infectious pneumonia, typhoid fever, septic 
metritis have been treated by either venous or subcutaneous in¬ 
jections of saline solutions, on some occasions renewed, and in 
several instances the treatment was followed by recovery. 
Mr. Bissauge has followed the publication of Mr. Bimes by 
a record of several instances where subcutaneous injections 
were used against various forms of haemorrhages (epistaxis, 
haemorrhage of castration, post-partum haemorrhage), tetanus, 
parturient apoplexy, infectious pneumonia, distemper of 
dogs; and incomplete, perhaps, as the results may seem to be, 
it has proved sufficiently successful in his hands to justify 
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