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local remedy of the pneumonia.” After considering at some length the 
statements made as to the frequency of these affections after diseases of 
the serous membranes, the pleura or the pericardium, and examining the 
phenomena produced under the influence of inflammation, and the 
modifications of the blood, such as accumulations in the plasma of all 
the immediate principles of denutrition, such as urea, uric, or hippuric 
acid, coloring matters and salts of the bile, &c., accumulation which is 
in proportion to the extent of the phlegmasy, its acute condition, and the 
want of proper elimination. Prof. Trasbot says that “ the relations 
established between the presence of these vastes (dechets) in the plasma 
of the blood, and the appearance of the rheumatismal synovitis, has 
had precisely for results the institution of a depurative and more effi¬ 
cacious treatment.” 
The treatment in all the recorded cases has varied much : counter 
irritants, blisters, setons, cauterizations, tenotomy, and having failed in 
many instances, he divides the therapeutic of those diseases into pre¬ 
ventive and curative. For the first, he has had recourse to diuretics 
and cholagogues, bi-carbonate of soda, nitrate of potash, spirits of tur¬ 
pentine. For the second, he recommends the administration of diuretics 
also, and the application, upon the seat of the disease, of blisters and 
mercurial ointments. The articles are closed by the suggestion of the 
employ of salycilate of soda, as recommended in human medicine. 
—Archives Veterinaircs , July and August. 
IMMOBILITY DUE TO A SOFT FIBROMA OF THE LATERAL VEN- 
TRICULES OF CEREBRUM, WITH DILATATION OF THE RIGHT 
HEART, OF AN AGED HORSE. 
The subject was an entire horse, about fifteen years old, 
which presented all the symptoms of immobility, with those of a 
suppurative collection in the superior and maxillary sinus—diseased 
condition for which he was treated by trephining of both the 
maxillary and frontal sinuses. The lesions of these cavities proved 
to be such that with them, and the fact of the animal being a dummy , 
it was decided to destroy him; this, however, not being done until 
both venticules of brain had been punctured as a matter of ex¬ 
periment. Other troubles of the respiration and circulation had also 
been observed. The operation of trephining the brain gave negative 
results. The post-mortem revealed an emphysematous condition of the 
lungs, a large dilatation of the right cavities of the heart. “ On open¬ 
ing the cranium, the meminges were found the seat of an intense con- 
