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As a complement to its writings, we may say that Mr. M. informs 
us that besides the therapeutic to which his patients have been sub¬ 
mitted, “ he has practiced lately transfusion of blood from lambs and 
calfs into two subjects, in which the appetite and general secretions 
(urinary principally) responded in a quite favorable manner, though 
the lameness and enlargement of the maxillary bone did not seem to 
be benefited.” 
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CONTINUED IRRIGATIONS IN THE TREATMENT OF 
SURGICAL DISEASES. 
Under this title Mr. Trasbot the learned clinical professor of 
Alfort, publishes a series of observations, where in combination with 
surgical manipulations, the constant current of cool water was found 
much beneficial. Employed in animals who have been operated for 
deep puncturating wound of the foot, for cartilaginous quittor, for 
suppurative corns, in those where a too severe cauterization by the 
actual cautery had been produced, in ^diseases of the withers and of 
the poll. Mr. Trasbot gives the following conclusions : “generally the 
continued irrigation is indicated in all surgical affections likely to be 
complicated or already so, with necrosis of a tissue of little vitality, 
fibrous or fibro cartilaginous. Applied immediately in the wounds of 
the plantar region, it prevents mortification of tendon and keeps the 
wound in good condition for repair. When neurosis has begun, it 
will stop it and bring the part back to a condition of perfect cicatriza¬ 
tion. In the most severe cases of sesamoid synovitis, of caries, of 
open joint, it becomes almost the indispensable and certainly the most 
efficacious complement of the operation. Whenever, after suppurative 
corn, pricks by the blacksmith, contusion of the foot, the flexor ten¬ 
dons or the cartilage of the third phalanx have been exposed and 
more or less macerated by the suppuration, the irrigation better 
than anything else will limitate the complications. When a joint 
has been open nothing will with more certitude bring on cicatriz¬ 
ation of the wound. Though not from personal experience, he believes 
that in traumatic arthritis, the effects of irrigation must be very satis¬ 
factory. It is the only one which will prevent the slough of large 
