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EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
IODOFORM TREATMENT OF A CASE OF CANKER OF THE FOOT.' 
By Mr. Gillibert. 
A gelding, eight years old, was affected with canker of the 
left fore foot, which, notwithstanding the regularity of the dress¬ 
ings and the use of the various modes of treatment recommended, 
resisted for three months; only a slight occasional improvement, 
followed by relapse, being obtained. Four months after the 
first attack the disease had made its appearance on both hind 
feet. The same daily attention was continued, but careful dress¬ 
ing brought on only temporary relief, and at the end of the fifth 
month the severe treatment of nitric acid and perchloride of iron 
failed to secure advantageous result. It was then that iodoform 
was for the first time used. The powder was laid over the entire 
diseased surface, and kept in place by a proper dressing. This 
was renewed every day for the first three days, and then every 
forty-eight hours. 
At the second dressing the discharge had diminished, and the 
foot looked better. At the fourth, the wound was rosy, and sur¬ 
rounded by a thin, whitish band of new hoof. The suppuration 
was of a better nature. On the sixth day, small spots of adherent 
and hard hoof were found over the denuded sole. At the eighth 
dressing, everything was improved ; and at the tenth the fore 
foot was cured. 
Treatment with iodoform was then employed on one of the 
hind feet—the right one—the left being left alone as witness. 
The recovery of the right foot took place as rapidly as that of the 
fore foot. Treatment of the left foot, so far unsuccessful by the 
other classic medications, also secured recovery in eight days. 
Since that time no return of the disease has been observed.— 
Recucil de Medecine Veterinaire. 
TREATMENT OF LOCKJAW WITH PHENIC ACID. 
By Mr. Poinot. 
Reports having been made of the advantage obtained with 
creosote in the treatment of lockjaw, in which the applications of 
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