EDITORIAL. 
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Although, according to Kauffmann, arecoline and its salts 
are powerful toxics, Frohner some time ago recommended the 
use of bromhydrate in the treatment of laminitis, and in ten 
cases of laminitis forward and two of the four feet, all had re¬ 
covered in an average treatment of six days. Later on Paimans, 
of Holland, recorded two cases with even shorter duration of 
treatment. A Belgian veterinarian has recently given his ex¬ 
perience in eight cases, with the following results : (ist case) 
Laminitis of both fore legs, sick for four days, resumed work 
after six days ; (2d) Laminitis both fore, sick for one day, to 
work five after ; (3d) Same trouble, same condition, resumed 
work in same length of time ; (4th) Disease had existed for a 
few days, resumed work after eleven days of treatment; (5th) 
Recent laminitis forward, recovery in three days ; (6th) Lami¬ 
nitis of four extremities, convalescent in a few days, to work in 
thirteen; (7th) Disease of both fore, cured in six days ; (8th) 
Disease of both fore, complicated with lameness behind, lami¬ 
nitis had existed for several days, resumed work, cured of both 
diseases in fifteen days. 
The administration of the bromhydrate was made subcuta¬ 
neously, 5 or 10 centigrams of the salt dissolved in 5 gramms of 
distilled water, one injection a day ; the quantity of salt injected 
varied according to size of animal, 5 for small, 10 for large. 
The advantage obtained by those who have already had re. 
course to that treatment cannot be ignored ; perhaps other ex¬ 
periments are necessary to confirm them, but from what has 
already been done this new treatment deserves the attention of 
veterinarians. 
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Antiseptic Veterinary Surgery. —It is no longer neces¬ 
sary to preach the value of autisepsy in the treatment of surgical 
diseases, and, though its thorough application demands special 
conditions which may be difficult to obtain in private practice, 
there are many conditions where even with imperfect appplica- 
tion it has given results which would have been otherwise had 
not antiseptic measures been resorted to. 
