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New Remedz"es. Pasteur enjoyed an ovation at the Academy of Sciences, where he was complimented by the president, who begged him to persevere in his researches without being discouraged by hostile criticism. "Go ahead," said M. Jurien de Ia Graviere, "and the whole Academy will uphold you in your triumphal progress." At the Academy of Medicine M. Pasteur gave a second reading of this communication, and evoked expressions of the greatest satisfaction from M. Verneuil, who is, according to the expression, in the same line of business. "To-day's communication," said the eminent professor, "has done ample justice to these dark doings (the criticisms of the incredulous). M. Pasteur can henceforth advance in the path of progress without heeding his obscure critics ! " M. Pasteur has also made experiments on dogs with ·a view to showing that, after inoculating them for hydrophobia by trephining, vaccination with the preventive marrow secures them immunity from the malady. The number of patients inoculated for hydrophobia up to October 3 I has been 2,490, of whom 1,726 were French, 191 Russians, 165 Italians, 107 Spaniards, 8o English, 57 Belgians, 52 Austrians, 25 Portuguese, 22 Roumanians, 18 Americans, 14 Dutch, 10 Greeks, nine Germans, seven Turks, three Brazilians, two Swiss, and two Hindoos. Of the I,7261French patients Jo died, six of these being children. Although very few persons bitten this year in France can have kept away from the laboratory, there have been to his knowledge 17 deaths among this small minority. While, moreover, the deaths in Paris hospitals from hydrophobia have, in five years, numbered 6o, and while last year there were 21, there have this year been only two, both not inoculated, besides a third not treated with sufficient intensity.
Stbl Jttmtlfire. HYPODERMIC MEDICATION. WE are glad to call special attention to the standard solutions prepared for subcutaneous injection by the eminent firm of Corbyn, Stacey and Co. Prior to the introduction of these solutions, in the absence of the original label, one was often troubled to remember what the strength of any given solution really was, for each drug-house had its own ideas as to strength, and the hypodermic doses of the various solutions ranged from ten minims to two or three drachms-a most inconvenient quantity to inject under the skin or into the substance of a muscle. The solutions made by Corbyn, Stacey and Co., are all standardised at thirty minims for the medium dose, a departure that will at once r ecomme nd itself to the profession, if only on the score of economy, portability, and convenience. Accompanying each bottle of injection is a circular, giving directions to those who need them for the use of the hypodermic syringe, a full list of injections and their uses, and copious extracts from the very able paper upon Hypodermic Medication recently read before the Lancashire Veterinary Medical Association by Mr. Gartside Mayor, F.R.C.V.S. HAZELINE. HAZELINE is the active principle of Hamamelis Virginica (Linn.), the American witch hazel, and is a clear, transparent, watery-looking fluid, of a pleasant odour, and possessing a slightly sweet astringent taste; it is absolutely free from poisonous or irritant properties. Attention has already
The Veterinary Jouma!. been directed to it as a valuable and comparatively inexpensive remedy in veterinary practice by Mr. Nunn ("Veterinary Journal," August I 886), and the additional information we have received regarding it, induces us to give it a special notice, in order that it may obtain wider use. The drug (s ometimes designated Hamamelis) is in its effect anodyne, sedative, cooling, antiseptic, styptic, and hremostatic. It is used externally for bruises, sprains, wounds, inflammations, soreness, and lameness, and greatly relieves pain. Nunn lauds it as a dressing for wounds and ulcers, when slow in healing, or when there is much loss of skin. In hremorrhages, external and internal, it has been employed very successfully. For simple ophthalmia it has bee n highly extolled, as well as a wash for sore mouth; while for sore throat, bronchitis, and even pneumonia, when inhaled with steam, it is reported as affording much relief. W e trust our readers will give it a trial, and thus be the means of adding one more useful drug to the lis t.
THE DURAPLASTIC COATED HORSE-BALL. MESSRS. 'WYLEYS & Co. have introduced a description of horse-ball which appears to possess several notable advantages which should commend it to veterinary surgeons. These advantages are related to its shape, coating, and the solubility of this coating. The shape is exactly that of an elongated conical shot, which gives it the fewest possible points of resistance to entering the pharynx and resophagus, enabling it to pass eas ily into the stomach, and reducing to a minimum the possibility of accident. The coating is on Fletcher's patent principle, and being absolutely air-tight, the therap eutic properties of the remedies it envelopes remain unimpaired for any length of time; while the ball is kept sufficiently fi rm to retain its shape, and is yet pliant enough to adapt itself to the fingers during administration. [n addition to this the coating is so soluble that it dissolves in less than two minutes at the normal temperature of the viscera, whereby the prompt action of the medicament is ensured, a point of much importance in urgent cases. The elegance and form of the bolus is in striking contrast to the old-fashioned paper-covered article, with its flat angular ends, and its too hard or too soft consistency.
t3rautl1ing9afUettrinttr~Jtlttrical~atittte9,&c. ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE. (Continued from page 354.) Place and opportunity.- In the carrying out of all educatiOn, general or special, the question of facilities as to place, opportunities, and arrangements occupies a prominent position. In the institution into which you have now entered, its fulness and completeness of arrangements, together with the willingness and alacrity which our governing body have ever exhibited to adapt these to the requirements of the public or professional demand, confer upon it a character and tone fully in keeping with the present day requirements. Within the walls of the Royal Veterinary College not only are the educational needs and requirements of the student attended to, but his personal convenience and comfort as a member of a liberal and educated brotherhood have received consideration. In the curriculum of study, the present arrangement has been carried out by giving a careful consideration first to those sciences upon which medicine is founded and built up, and second to B.
Stbl Jttmtlfire. HYPODERMIC MEDICATION. WE are glad to call special attention to the standard solutions prepared for subcutaneous injection by the eminent firm of Corbyn, Stacey and Co. Prior to the introduction of these solutions, in the absence of the original label, one was often troubled to remember what the strength of any given solution really was, for each drug-house had its own ideas as to strength, and the hypodermic doses of the various solutions ranged from ten minims to two or three drachms-a most inconvenient quantity to inject under the skin or into the substance of a muscle. The solutions made by Corbyn, Stacey and Co., are all standardised at thirty minims for the medium dose, a departure that will at once r ecomme nd itself to the profession, if only on the score of economy, portability, and convenience. Accompanying each bottle of injection is a circular, giving directions to those who need them for the use of the hypodermic syringe, a full list of injections and their uses, and copious extracts from the very able paper upon Hypodermic Medication recently read before the Lancashire Veterinary Medical Association by Mr. Gartside Mayor, F.R.C.V.S. HAZELINE. HAZELINE is the active principle of Hamamelis Virginica (Linn.), the American witch hazel, and is a clear, transparent, watery-looking fluid, of a pleasant odour, and possessing a slightly sweet astringent taste; it is absolutely free from poisonous or irritant properties. Attention has already
The Veterinary Jouma!. been directed to it as a valuable and comparatively inexpensive remedy in veterinary practice by Mr. Nunn ("Veterinary Journal," August I 886), and the additional information we have received regarding it, induces us to give it a special notice, in order that it may obtain wider use. The drug (s ometimes designated Hamamelis) is in its effect anodyne, sedative, cooling, antiseptic, styptic, and hremostatic. It is used externally for bruises, sprains, wounds, inflammations, soreness, and lameness, and greatly relieves pain. Nunn lauds it as a dressing for wounds and ulcers, when slow in healing, or when there is much loss of skin. In hremorrhages, external and internal, it has been employed very successfully. For simple ophthalmia it has bee n highly extolled, as well as a wash for sore mouth; while for sore throat, bronchitis, and even pneumonia, when inhaled with steam, it is reported as affording much relief. W e trust our readers will give it a trial, and thus be the means of adding one more useful drug to the lis t.
THE DURAPLASTIC COATED HORSE-BALL. MESSRS. 'WYLEYS & Co. have introduced a description of horse-ball which appears to possess several notable advantages which should commend it to veterinary surgeons. These advantages are related to its shape, coating, and the solubility of this coating. The shape is exactly that of an elongated conical shot, which gives it the fewest possible points of resistance to entering the pharynx and resophagus, enabling it to pass eas ily into the stomach, and reducing to a minimum the possibility of accident. The coating is on Fletcher's patent principle, and being absolutely air-tight, the therap eutic properties of the remedies it envelopes remain unimpaired for any length of time; while the ball is kept sufficiently fi rm to retain its shape, and is yet pliant enough to adapt itself to the fingers during administration. [n addition to this the coating is so soluble that it dissolves in less than two minutes at the normal temperature of the viscera, whereby the prompt action of the medicament is ensured, a point of much importance in urgent cases. The elegance and form of the bolus is in striking contrast to the old-fashioned paper-covered article, with its flat angular ends, and its too hard or too soft consistency.
t3rautl1ing9afUettrinttr~Jtlttrical~atittte9,&c. ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE. (Continued from page 354.) Place and opportunity.- In the carrying out of all educatiOn, general or special, the question of facilities as to place, opportunities, and arrangements occupies a prominent position. In the institution into which you have now entered, its fulness and completeness of arrangements, together with the willingness and alacrity which our governing body have ever exhibited to adapt these to the requirements of the public or professional demand, confer upon it a character and tone fully in keeping with the present day requirements. Within the walls of the Royal Veterinary College not only are the educational needs and requirements of the student attended to, but his personal convenience and comfort as a member of a liberal and educated brotherhood have received consideration. In the curriculum of study, the present arrangement has been carried out by giving a careful consideration first to those sciences upon which medicine is founded and built up, and second to B.