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A. LIAUTARD. 
We understand that so far R. McClure has been tried on one charge 
only. Two or three others remain which will probably bring upon him 
a still more severe punishment. 
TRANSLATIONS AND EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN 
JOURNALS. 
By A. Liautard, M. D. V. S. 
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RHEUMATISMAL SYNOVITIS. 
In the Archives Veterinaires, Prof. Trasbot called the attention of 
the profession to the form of lameness often seen as complications of 
acute pneumonia and pleurisy of the horse—a disease which is already 
mentioned by Fromage de Feugre as following attacks of pleuro-pneu- 
monia. After stating that up to the time of publishing his writings no 
physiological interpretations of the disease had been given, and giving 
the etiology as to its frequency, and relating the different cases on record, 
Prof. Trasbot concludes that the great differences observed in the fre¬ 
quency of the rheumatismal synovitis are due more to the treatment in¬ 
stituted to regulate the march of the pulmonary inflammation. He 
says : “ It is indeed very rare; if one adds to the classic therapeutic of 
pneumonia, a mode of depurative treatment, having for object to elimin¬ 
ate more rapidly the products of desassimilitation that Charles Robin 
has named vastes (dechets). Since that idea was suggested to me by a 
complete study of the pathological pathology of the inflammation con¬ 
sidered generally, I have been able to collect numerous facts, all in per¬ 
fect accord, and daily more and more corroborative. This year specially, 
as consequence of the numerous cases of pneumonia which have been 
treated in Alfort, I have obtained a positive demonstration of the 
veracity of this opinion. Out of more than sixty cases which recovered 
from single or double pneumonia, two only have been affected with 
rheumatismal synovitis at the period of the resolution of the affection, 
and these were precisely the only cases in which the treatment was the 
ordinary one put in practice in the school. In both, the pneumonia, 
though extensive, seemed not to be serious; the organism did not seem 
to be much impaired, and the march of the disease was very regular. 
Both would probably have recovered without treatment; they recovered 
in less than eight days by a depurative treatment, combined with the 
