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ture. Notwithstanding the painful manipulation to which the 
animal had been submitted, the recovery was very rapid. ^ The 
after treatment consisted in antiseptic irrigation, tepid boricated 
water, at 5 per cent., and internally tonics .—{^Reviie Veter.) 
Lactic Acid and Pyoktanin in the Treatment of 
Meeanoma \_By Mr. Bissaiige']. — Basing his experiments 
upon what is known in human medicine of the destructive ef¬ 
fects of pathological tissues, the author has had recourse to the 
use of these compounds in the treatment of melanotic tumors, 
which by their position or their number were not amenable to 
surgical interference or for those which by.their situation inter¬ 
fered with the execution of a function. It is upon that treat¬ 
ment that he relieved a horse that had enormous tumors of the 
sheath, of the anus and on the tail, one which had a melanotic 
growth on the point of the shoulder, a stallion which had mela¬ 
nomas of the tail, a mare which had them on the vulva, on the 
anus and on the tail, etc. His mode of procedure consisted in 
injecting at various points around the tumors 10 cubic centi¬ 
meters of a solution of 25 grammes of lactic acid in 75 of steril¬ 
ized water. A few days after he opens the little abscesses 
formed at the point of injection and removes the mass, which is 
isolated by a deep furrow of sloughing tissues. The wound 
. that remains is washed and dressed with pyoktanin after being 
carefully curetted clean. Though his experiments are few, and 
have not always given him complete recovery, the author 
thinks that this treatment is perfectly justified in the cases re¬ 
ferred to above.— {^Rec. de Med. Vet.) 
Traumatic Tetanus Treated with Antitetanic Se¬ 
rum —Recovery \By Mr. P. Chenol ].—This case is one of the 
i few recorded in French papers, and on this account deserves at¬ 
tention. The subject was placed under treatment two days 
after all the symptoms were well developed. He received the 
first day, 20 grammes of serum, injected into the muscular tis¬ 
sue ; subcutaneous injection being impossible on account of 
: the tensity of the skin. This was renewed twice during the 
day. Same treatment for several days. Improvement notice- 
! able on the second day. By degrees the injections were reduced. 
Finally recovery. The author resumes his report in saying: 
1 The horse taken with traumatic tetanus, and treated only two 
! days after the appearance of the symptoms with antitetanic 
*1^ .serum, has required two months to recover completely : during 
:|seven consecutive days he received two hundred and sixty 
“^grammes of serum, the injection being made into the thickness 
