The normal salt solution, .6 per cent., is sterilized by boiling, and placed in a sterilized vessel where it is allowed to cool to the body temperature; then a caouchouc tube furnished with a silver tube at one end and sterilized as for transfusion of blood, is filled with the solution and the vessel containing the latter having been placed at a level higher than the patient, the tube is used as a syphon. When the liquid flows in full stream the silver tube is inserted downward into the jugular of the patient and the liquid is allowed to flow in, subject to the same precautions as regards sudden blood tension as in the case of the transfusion of blood. _Prevention._ No country appears to have attempted the absolute exclusion of the disease or the extinction of the germ by a compulsory quarantine and disinfection. The nearest approach to this is in Prussia where in the event of an outbreak of equine influenza, the official veterinarians and police authorities must send in reports to be published in the official papers and communicated to the directors of government breeding studs and to the army authorities. We have here the germ of an effective system of extinction, for if those in charge of government horses in an infected country can protect them against infection, much more could such protection be secured by putting an end to the infection which is now allowed to remain generalized. Moreover in our great outbreak of 1872–3, when germ-potency and all but universal susceptibility were so remarkable, effective quarantine showed the most signal successes, in the resulting immunity of Vancouver’s Island, Prince Edward Island, the whole of the West Indies except Cuba, Central and South America, and isolated districts in Mexico. Sanitary police in this disease has been abandoned mainly because the virus is so diffusive on the air that quarantine must be more than usually comprehensive to prevent extension of infection, and because the disease is fatal only in a small percentage of cases, so that the loss is apparently minimized. But a panzoötic like that of 1872–3, prostrating 1,000,000 horses, asses and mules in the United States for one to two weeks, and paralyzing the agriculture and commerce of the continent for that length of time, may well make one hesitate to supinely accept for all time an evil, which, experience has shown, can be circumscribed and stamped out. When horse owners, legislatures and veterinarians can be educated up to the needs of the case our yearly local losses from equine influenza, and the occasional all pervading epizoötics of this disease can probably be abolished by the extinction of the germ on the Continent. To achieve this result an immediate large outlay would be well spent. In a new generation, or a new century perhaps, this desirable object may be achieved.