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ering stem haf shot up, and about the time 
when the blossoms are coming forth. He 
rejects the leaf-stalk and middle rib of the 
leaves, and dries the remaining part either in 
sunshine or before the fire. In this state 
they are easily reduced to a beautiful green 
powder, of which we may give at first one 
rain twice aday, and gradually increase the 
Sas until it act upon the kidneys, stomach, 
pulse, and bowels, when its use must be laid 
aside or suspended. 
«© 2. In infusion. The same author directs 
a drachm of the dried leaves to be infused for 
four hours in eight ounces of boiling water, 
and that there be added to the strained li- 
quor an ounce of any spirituous water for its 
preservation. Half an ounce or an ounce of 
this infusion may be given twice a day. 
«© 3. In decoction. Darwin directs that 
four ounces of the fresh-leaves be boiled from 
two pounds of water to one, and half an 
ounce of the strained decoction to be taken 
every two hours, for four or more doses. 
‘4. In tincture. Put one ounce of the 
dried leaves, coarsely powdered, inio four 
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ounces of diluted alcohol; let the mixture 
stand by the fire-side twenty-four hours, fre- 
quently shaking the bottle; and the saturated 
tincture, as Darwin calls it, must then be se- 
parated from the residuum by straining or 
decantation. Twenty drops of this tincture 
may be taken twice or thrice aday. The 
Edinburgh college use eight ounces of diluted 
alcohol to one of the powder, but let it digest 
seven days. 
«© 5. The expressed juice and extract are 
not proper forms of exhibiting this very active 
ema as 
«« When the digitalis is disposed to excite 
looseness, opium may be advantageously con- 
joined with it; and when the bowels are 
tardy, jalap may be given at the same time, 
without interfering with its diuretic effects. 
During its operation in this way, the patient 
should drink very freely.” 
A few outline plates of chemical appa- 
ratus are added, which are very decently 
executed. ‘ 
Arr. LXII. The Veterinarian’s Pocket Manual : containing brief Direetions for the 
Prevention and Cure of Diseases in Horses ; including important Observations on the 
Glanders ; together with a Table of different Degrees of Running commonly denominated 
Glanders ; and a Treatise on some of the most common Operations. By M. La Fossr, 
Member of the National Institute, of the Medical Society, and principal Farrier to the 
Army in France. yp. 128 12mo. 
THE authority of M. La Fosse, in mat- 
ters relating to veterinary medicine, is 
considerable ; but some of the opinions 
entertained by him, as they differ mate- 
rially from those of many of the best in- 
formed practitioners in this country, 
must be received with caution. In shoe- 
ing, he recommends, as is the practice 
of the Veterinary College, that the frog 
should not be cut away, but be allowed 
to touch the ground ; and adduces, as 
an argument for the safety of this prac- 
tice, that the horses of the Low Coun- 
tries and Germany, go without shoes, 
and suffer no inconvenience from the 
pressure of the frog against the ground. 
On the subject of glanders, the author 
holds some peculiar opinions. He con. 
ceives that this disease may be divided 
into three species, the first of which 
is the glanders properly so called; the 
“second, * nothing more than some disorder 
circulating in the mass of blood;’ the 
third, the farcy glanders. 
«* Glanders of the first kind is not infec- 
tidus, except ibe complicated with other 
disorders, but this is seldom: the case, and we 
may daily witness horses thus attacked, aban- 
doned as incurable, or with more humanity 
put, to death. On the contrary, glanders.of 
the second species is communicable, because 
the horse, besides, running at the nose, and 
becoming glanderous, has tikewise chancres, 
and these chancres appear to be the only 
proximate cause of contagion. 
«© The third species of glanders is in like 
manner contagious, because it not only oc- 
casions a running of the nose, but the tume- 
fied glands, and the cartilage, of the mose are 
chanered, and likewise certain parts of the- 
body are covered with Jumps and chancres, 
which latter characterize the farcy glanders, 
the most dangerous disorder of the three, but 
not the most common. These two latter 
species of glanders are infectious, because the 
disease resides principally in the blood ; but 
the glanders of the first species, the real 
elanders, the glanders properly so called, is 
not in any wise contagious although it most 
frequently occurs. 
«« The second and third species are incu- 
rable, but the last only is mortal. Butas to 
glanders of the first sort, it is neither incurable 
nor mortal. In the first place, we repeat, 
this disease is not mortal in any case, and a 
horse attacked by it is inthe same situation as 
a man who has lost the sense of smelling ; it 
is the loss of a sense, and the loss of a sense 
prevents neither the man nor the horse from 
fulfilling all the animal functions ; for as we 
daily observe men affected with ulcerated 
noses preserve an otherwise sound constitu- 
tion, and even lool: jolly, so we may observe 
a glandered horse preserve his strength and 
health. ve 
