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nose diminished, but returned as soon as the rowel was taken out. There 

 seemed to be something besides a mere catarrhal condition of the pitu- 

 itary membrane, and it was determined to try copaiba in the case. Half- 

 ounce doses were given daily for thirteen days, when the patient was dis- 

 charged, "cured." 



Recovery under the Use of Cubeb Pepjjer. 



Case I. — In October 1826, a brown horse, four years old, and of apparent 

 healthy constitution, was admitted with " incipient glanders and swelled hind 

 leg." The swollen limb, however, was afterwards found to have arisen from 

 injury. There is a tolerably profuse discharge from the near nostril, and a 

 lobulous tumefaction underneath the jaw, on the same side. Pie was ordered 

 to take half an ounce of cubeb pepper, made into a ball with molasses, three 

 times a-day ; which afterwards was increased to an ounce, though the medi- 

 cine was every now and then discontinued for a day or so, on account of the 

 appetite failing. Altogether, he continued taking the pepper for a month, 

 during which time the nasal discharge varied much, being at times little and 

 then a good deal again : in the end, however, it became so trifling, and the 

 diminution of the glandular swelling was such, that the patient was dis- 

 charged, " cured." 



Recovery and Amendment under il^e Use of Cayenne Pepper. 



Case I. — May 1826. The same (bay) mare that afterwards, in consequence 

 of relapse, took the cubeb pepper, on her first admission, which was on ac- 

 count of a copious discharge of healthy-looking purulent matter from her 

 nostril, with tumefaction of the submaxillary gland of the same side, took 

 Cayenne pepper, in drachm doses, twice a-da}^, and at the same time had the 

 tumour under the jaw blistered. On the eleventh day her nose appeared 

 clean, all discharge having ceased, and the tumefied gland much diminished. 

 The medicine, however, was continued for a week longer; and then the mare 

 left the infirmary, "cured," there remaining only some trifling enlargement 

 under the jaw. 



Case II. The black and grey cart-mares, the property of Mr. Selby of 

 Wilmington in Kent, whose cases are, in so far as regards their origin, given 

 at page 226, both took Cayenne pepper, commencing with two-drachm doses 

 morning and evening, which were afterwards augmented to four drachms twice 

 a-day, and, instead of being made up with farina and molasses, were com- 

 pounded of farina and copaiba balsam. The black mare, although confirmedly 

 glandered, received so much temporary benefit from the medicine — the nasal 

 ulcerations healing under the influence of it, and the nasal flux ceasing— that 

 she went to work again, appearing to all to be " cured." She, however, ex- 

 perienced relapse ; and in the end was, together with the grey mare who had 

 also taken the pepper, but with less benefit, put to death. 



