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which was suppressed and painful, ceased by evening. Tem¬ 
perature normal, and ate two quarts of oats and a little damp 
hay. I gave the bryonia then every three hours till ii o’clock 
and nothing else. Next morning she was anxious for her feed, 
which she ate (three quarts oats), drank some water, and has 
continued improving, and now has but an occasional cough, 
good appetite ; temperature and pulse normal, also respirations. 
I find one of the best remedies in lung troubles and some 
cases of chronic cough is bryonia. If you use it when indi¬ 
cated, and by studying standard authors on homoeopathy, you 
cannot make a mistake. I also find this a great remedy in the 
human subject for neuralgic pains in either stomach or chest 
and pains in the ovaries of women. 
APOMORPHIA AS AN KMETIC FOR DOGS. 
By Francis ABhLE, Quincy, Mass, 
Was called by a medical doctor to a pup that had swallowed 
a large soapy sponge. I say large, for the piece was about 
5x3x1 ^ inches. I advised a zinc sulphate emetic or mustard 
or soapsuds. The doctor, however, fed the dog gravy, dog 
bread, meat and potatoes, etc., to overload the stomach ; then 
we gave mustard and water. While waiting on action he spoke 
of apomorphia as used in his practice. I knew of the drug, 
but not in a practical way ; so urged him to try it. He accord¬ 
ingly injected subeutaneously, and within one minute the 
dog was siek, retched and vomited. At the second expulsion 
the sponge came up just as easy as, I should imagine, salt pork 
would on a seasiek man. I then and there decided that hence¬ 
forth apomorphia would be my companion. I learned another 
lesson. That thick, viscid food had coated the sponge so that 
it would slip easily. Here was a pointer alone that might have 
made the difference between suecess and failure. 
A BURL FRACTURES HIS HUMERUS WHIEE COPURATING. 
By C. E. Burchsted, M. D. V., Exeter, N. H. 
September 30th was called to see a young bull, 15 months 
old, that had injured his leg in serving a cow. I found upon 
manipulation that there was a fracture of the body of the 
humerus, which happened as follows : He had not served for 
quite awhile, and beeame excited upon approach of cow, and in 
plunging forward to mount fell to one side, hanging by the 
nigh leg upon the back of the cow, when, the owner says, he 
heard a snap. He fell to the ground in a heap. Was this frac- 
