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the ointment of that preparation upon the masseter museles, or 
over the entire spinal column, had been followed by relaxation of 
the trismus, of the dilatation of the nostrils, and of the corded 
condition of the flank, the author was brought to the trial of this 
medicine with satisfactory results. 
First, two horses, previously treated by chloral hydrate with¬ 
out results, received a friction over the body of phenic acid with 
one-tenth solution, which lasted from seven to eight minutes. 
In these animals the frictions were renewed forty-eight hours 
afterwards, and were soon followed by the general effect of the 
absorption of the drug. The recovery became well established 
after the fourth application, and the animals were able to resume 
their work a month afterwards. 
Another case is recorded of an animal suffering from trau¬ 
matic lockjaw, following castration. At the onset of the disease 
he received chloral without benefit, and was placed under phenic 
acid treatment. The solution one-tenth, having been accom¬ 
panied with sloughing of the skin in the first case, it was reduced 
to the strength of one-twentieth. This patient received five 
frictions, the first three daily ; the others every other day. .Re¬ 
covery was rapid.— Ibid . 
CAESARIAN OPERATION IN THE BITCH. 
By Me. V. Peupion. 
The author divided the operation into five steps, as follows: 
1st. The animal lying on the proper side, (right or left), an 
incision eight centimeters long was made through the skin, from 
the external angle of the ilium forward and downward, toward 
the last rib. Then the aponeurosis and muscles were divided, 
and w r hen the wound was bloodless the peritoneum was exposed, 
punctured with the bistoury ani opened in the direction of the 
cutaneous opening. 
2d. The abdominal walls being opened, the intestinal and ute¬ 
rine horn were exposed, and the opening of the foetal membranes 
sac was accomplished. Bringing the horn as near to the opening 
of the skin as possible, the various coats of the organ were succes- 
