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TREATMENT OF KERATITIS WITH WARM COMPRESSES. 
By M. Brun. 
Entering first into the anatomy of structure of the cornea, and 
giving the opinions of Colin, Abadie and Chauveau, also examining 
the different causes and various forms under which these affections 
are met with, taking into consideration the changes that this mem¬ 
brane undergoes during inflammation, the author arrives at the 
conclusion that “ astringent treatment must be avoided, that saline 
caustics, and especially lead, have the disadvantage of leaving in 
the meshes of the structure metallic particles and indelible spots, 
and that the pencil of nitrate of silver must be more carefully 
used in the treatment of those affections. If there are cases 
where nitrate of silver can be used, M. Brun claims that it must 
be combined with warm compresses. The following is the modus 
operandi of the application to the diseased eye: Three or four 
times a day, during ten minutes each time, warm applications or 
fomentations, with a decoction of camomile, and having on the 
eye warm compresses wet with the same decoction, the heat being 
at 40° centigrade. Atropine and eserine cannot also be combined 
as local applications .—Archives Veterinaires. 
ON THE NATURE AND ETIOLOGY OF STRINGHALT. 
By M. Orrlllard. 
The author mentions several cases where this difficulty of 
action at the hock joint was accompanied with lesion of posterior 
crural region, at or about the point where the tendon Achilles 
makes its projection before reaching the os calcis, and concludes 
by asking if laceration of the muscles of the posterior portions 
of the leg, and of the crural regions, or partial lacerations of the 
tendonous and aponeurotic portions of the cord of the hock could 
not give rise to that peculiar action, the pathology of which has 
been summarily attributed to a diseased condition of the sciatic 
nervc / to diseases of the hock joint, to ulcerations of the astraga¬ 
lus at the bottom of the trochiar surface .—Archives Veterinaires. 
