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color. The inguinal sac is freely open and the index linger 
introduced into the canal discovers a strong strangulation, which 
renders it very difficult to pass the extremity of the finger into 
the neck of the sac. A blunt bistoury is then introduced flatwise 
along the finger, and when at the place of strangulation, the 
division is made by a turn of the instrument with the sharp edge. 
The division is again carried upon another part of the strangula¬ 
tion, to facilitate the reduction, which is effected with the hand 
carefully oiled. A clam is placed as high as possible, and the 
animal allowed to get up. The next day, as the parts are con¬ 
siderably swollen, the animal is thrown down again and the parts 
well cleaned with carbolized water. Five days after this the 
clam sloughs off, and from that day every thing is doing well. 
About two weeks later a large abscess is found and opened in the 
right groin. Three days after there is a slight rise of tempera, 
ture—some drafts in the stable are considered as dangerous and 
are carefully closed up. 
The next day, the twenty-fourth after the operation, the 
symptoms of tetanus are well marked. The treatment consists 
in a pint of spirits of turpentine mixed with white of eggs. 
This is given in two doses with linseed tea and honey. Another 
pint is given by rectal injection, in small quantities repeated. 
The body is heavily wrapped with blankets, and the animal 
placed loose in a dark box. The next day the animal is worse. 
About two ounces of laudanam are given one-half per mouth with 
a syringe, the other per rectum. Fumigation with ether, and 
wound dressed with tincture of opium. This treatment is con¬ 
tinued with variations of more or less improvement in the symp. 
toms, until the thirty-fifth day, when he is discharged .—Recueil 
de Medecine Veterinaire. 
NEW TREATMENT OF QUARTER CRACKS. 
By M. Cousin. 
By this new and simple mode of operation, the author claims 
to have some important points, in the advantages obtained by his 
process. Applicable to all simple solutions of continuity, that is, 
when there is no disease of the laminae or of the bone, it is said 
