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powers of life. Corn meal may also be given in tlie same 

 way, and for a like purpose. 



By way of experiment, galvanism or electricity may be 

 employed over a blistered surface made along the pncu- 

 mogastric nerve on each side of the neck. Injections 

 endermically — under the skin — with strychnine may result 

 in gaining time for other measures to become effectual as a 

 cure. 



The cause of this disease in horses does not differ, we 

 think, materially from those that give rise to like diseases 

 in men; for on the shore opposite to Long Island in 1867, 

 and at the very time horses were affected with the disease, 

 over 400 deaths were recorded in the human family from 

 an affection similar to paralysis. 



The jweventlon of tliis disease, like many others that 

 affect domestic animals, is more easily accomplished than the 

 cure. Use dry stables ; also good feed, in which a drachm 

 or two of the sulphate of iron, or five grains of ar^seniG 

 should be mixed, and given once daily, when such diseases 

 are in the vicinage, for eight to ten days at a time. 



■g|(3gj'3^ — I clo not intend to speak of internal ulcers, as 

 of the brain, chest, or belly — they being beyond the skill 

 of the most learned, much less the non-professional reader 

 — but will confine myself to external ulcers, as of the skin 

 and flesh. 



(1.) Healthy Ulcers. — These are generally the result 

 of an accident, or incision with a knife, or other instrument. 

 Every sore which does not heal by wliat is called the first 

 intention, but suppurates, is called a healthy ulcer. 



Treatment. Most healthy ulcers will heal of themselves : 

 at most all that is required to be done, especially in warm 

 weather, is to keep the granulations (which see,) from 



