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The foot was dressed daily in the same manner until the 30th, 
when the fistulae were found to be slowly closing and the dis¬ 
charge diminishing ; and on the 8th of April, seventeeu days 
from the begining of the treatment, the marc was discharged. 
The wounds were almost entirely healed, and she was quite able 
to resume her work. 
Case 2. —Was a bay gelding, five years old. He had been 
under treatment for the last three months, and was discharged a 
week ago as cured, but became very lame the second day after he 
was shod. The part around the coronet of the near hind foot 
had become considerably swollen, an abscess had formed and 
ulcerated ; and on the 27 tli of March he was brought to the hos¬ 
pital for advice and treatment. 
When admitted he had a fistula about two inches in length, 
running obliquely downwards, on the cartilage, and opening on 
the side of a wound about one and a half inches in size, a short 
distance above the coronet. 
The treatment decided upon was similar to that of Case No. 1, 
viz.: antiseptic washing and soaking in plienic solution, injection 
of iodo-phenol, carbolized oakum for dressing, the whole covered 
with oil silk, and protected with a snug, tight bandage. 
This was renewed daily for a few days, when the parts seem¬ 
ing to improve so rapidly, and the wound having considerably 
healed, the fistulae diminished and the lameness improved, the 
dressing was changed only every second, and soon, every third 
day. He was discharged on the 16th of April, radically cured, 
and has since been regularly at work. 
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CHEMICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL FACTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE 
HISTORY OF THE HEREDITY OF TUBERCULOSIS. 
By Messrs. L. Landouzy and H. Martin. 
Many modern pathologists deny that persons are ever born 
tuberculous, but admit that one may be born liable to it; that 
what the child born of tuberculous parents inherits is not tuber¬ 
culosis, but merely a predisposition to the development of tuber- 
