Beyond the extraction of any foreign bodies which may have lodged, as in this last case, it is not known that there are any indications for special treatment of tetanus as occurring after gunshot injuries. The employment of woorali has again been brought into notice by its successful administration by M. Vella, of Turin, in the case of a French sergeant wounded in the metatarsus of the right foot, on the 4th of June, 1859, at the battle of Magenta, by a musket–ball which lodged. The projectile was extracted three days after his admission into hospital at Turin, on the 10th of June, and tetanus set in three days afterward. But the woorali failed in two other cases; and it has yet to be determined, should it be found to possess any peculiar power over tetanic spasm, to what class of cases its properties are applicable. =Hospital gangrene=, a common disease of wounded soldiers when circumstances of war lead to overcrowding in ill–ventilated buildings, and to deficiency in the proper number of attendants for securing personal cleanliness and purity of atmosphere, with inferior diet; and =Pyemia=, a frequent cause of fatal termination after gunshot fractures, injuries of joints, and other suppurating wounds, especially under the influence of circumstances like those above named, are treated separately under their respective heads. ANESTHESIA IN GUNSHOT WOUNDS. The complete applicability of chloroform on the field to injuries caused by gunshot, as to all others in civil practice, is established among Continental surgeons, and among a majority of British army surgeons. The first opportunity of testing chloroform largely as an anesthetic agent in British military surgery occurred in the Crimean war, and a long report on the subject will be found in the published Surgical History of the Campaign. The general tenor of this report is to limit considerably the use of chloroform—in minor operations, on the ground of occasional bad results, even when the drug is of good quality and properly administered; or, in cases where the shock is very severe, on the ground that such do not rally, owing to the depressing effect of the drug, after the anesthesia has gone off; or in secondary operations, from the systems of the patients having been much reduced by purulent discharges. But from the report it appears that only one patient died from the effects of chloroform; and in this instance, Professor Maclagan, of Edinburgh, to whom a portion was forwarded for examination, reported the drug to be “acrid and nauseous when inhaled,” and “totally unfit for use.” On the other hand, Dr. Scrive, chief of the French Medical Department in the East, has written, in his Relation Médico–Chirurgicale de la Campagne d’Orient, p. 465: “De tous les moyens thérapeutiques employés par l’art chirurgicale, aucun n’a été aussi efficace et n’a réussi avec un succès aussi complet que le chloroforme; jamais, dans aucune circonstance, son maniement sur