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give, eveiy four hours, twenty drops of the tincture of aconite root 

 in a little cold water ; next day, give the tincture of nux vomica in 

 fifteen drops every four hours, in the same way, till the horse is 

 well, which usually will be about the sixth or seventh day, and 

 sometimes even sooner. If, however, the case does not improve, 

 and the appetite is not good, give powdered carbonate of ammonia 

 and gentian root, each three drachms to a dose, morning, noon, 

 and night, in addition to the tincture of nux vomica. Tliese med- 

 icines will have to be mixed with cold water, and the horse 

 drenched out of a strong-necked bottle or ox's horn cut slanting at 

 the mouth. Keep the ammonia in a bottle tightly corked till it is 

 used, as it loses its strength by exposure to the air. Let the horse 

 have as much cold water to drink as he wants ; and for this pur- 

 pose a bucketful should be kept before him.. Pure air and good 

 ventilation should be insured to all sick horses. Green, or soft 

 feed should be given from the first day, if the horse will eat it. 

 Green feed all the time of sickness w'ill be of advantage, but oats 

 will have to be given in addition to support the strength and vital 

 powers of the system, to enable him to throw off the efi'ects of the 

 disease. Such, then, is the manner of curing a disease which has 

 destroyed many horses, even when treated by men calling them- 

 selves veterinary surgeons, or at least horse doctors. (See Influ- 

 enza and Rheumatism.) 



Glanders. — The following synopsis of a lecture delivered by 

 Dr. McClure published in the Evening Bulletin will answer for the 

 history and nature of the disease called glanders. The treatment 

 will be made more plain for non-professional readers. 



Dr. Robert McClure, Veterinary Surgeon, delivered a very inter- 

 esting lecture at the Veterinary College. His subject w\as " Glan- 

 ders in Horses." He said : Glanders is a disease dating from the 

 time of Xenophon, or four hundred years before Christ, and we 

 are assured by Hippocrates (ruler of the horse), that confirmed 

 glanders was incurable, and that it was then known by the name 

 Profluvium Atticum. Veterinary surgeons recognize two varieties 

 of Eqidnia in the horse, viz. : Equinia mitis, contracted from horses 

 with greasy heels {Paronychia Equi)^ and Equinia Glandulosa, a 

 dangerous disease, and readily communicated to man. Glanders 

 is unknown at the tropics and at the poles, and is not seen where 



