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come very much emaciated. Upon examining the tongue, I 
found it exceedingly swollen, hot and tender to the touch, its 
dorsum being studded with nodules, varying in size from a three¬ 
penny piece to a shilling. 4s I had not the means necessary for 
treating the case by me, I arranged to go over the following 
morning, when I cast the animal, and proceeded to scrape the 
nodules, and immediately afterwards applied the idoised pheuols, 
so strongly and successfully recommended by Prof. Walley, in 
his treatment of this disease. The local treatment was aided by 
the administration twice daily of iodide of potassium, combined 
with vegetable tonics. On visiting my patient on August 15th, 
I found that the scraping and the iodised phenol had effected a 
wonderful and satisfactory change, but knowing the intractability 
of the disease, I thought it advisable to again scrape the affected 
parts, and to repeat the iodised phenol, and from this time 
recovery proceeded rapidly. 
On Wednesday, August 19th, 1 saw the cow for the last time. 
The tongue had nearly assumed its normal condition, and there 
was no longer any inability to prebend or masticate food. She 
was subsequently turned out, the followiug week, and I have since 
learned has done exceedingly well. 
It will be observed in these few remarks on this case, that 
my treatment differed from that of Mr. Gresswell, by the substi¬ 
tution of scraping for scarification, which I venture to think is a 
very important divergence, inasmuch as the whole of the debris 
is at once removed, and the implicated surfaces fully exposed to 
the action of the medicant .—From The Veterinarian. 
HYDROCHLORATE OF COCAINE—ITS USE IN OPERATING ON 
THE EYE FOR FILARIA OCULI. 
By J. Mills, M.R.C.Y.S., A.Y.D., (Madras.) 
Having heard a great deal regarding the advantages of the 
use of cocaine in operation on the human e}’e, I decided on the 
first opportunity to give it a trial. Fortunately, a case was ad¬ 
mitted into the Government Civil Veterinary Hospital under my 
charge, on the 2d of June, 1885. The patient was a large waler 
