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relief from a severe attack, but has seemed to abate the 

 symptoms of the disease for a considerable time afterward. 

 The -best prescription of this sort is the following: Two 

 ounces of blue stone, the same of asafoetida, and the same of 

 "jimson" seed — all to be pulverized, and then put into one 

 pint of good spirits. Divide this into six doses, and give one 

 each day in a pint of warm water. 



We have seen hundreds of cases of thumps at the South, 

 and have treated a considerable number. We have bled in 

 some instances, but of these cases only two or three do we 

 now think needed bleeding. * , 



SCROFULA. 



Before passing on to an examination of the causes and 

 phenomena of fever, or inflammation of the blood, we wish 

 to consider briefly the question whether the horse is a scrof- 

 ulous animal. 



We know that the body of the hog is filled with scrofulous 

 ulcers. They are found in his liver, lungs, mesentery, pan- 

 creas, diaphragm, intestines, and pleura ; on the heart, also, 

 and on the walls of •the ribs, the fat on the sides, and even 

 on the legs. No hog, probably, lives or dies without having 

 scrofulous ulcers and tubercles in some of these organs. Cat- 

 tle are similarly affected, though in a much less degree. 

 Tubercles have been found in both the liver and lungs of 

 the kiue. Sheep are scrofulous, and decidedly more so than 

 cattle. Of other animals, we have no positive knowledge, 

 but there are indications which lead us to believe that many 

 of them, at least, have been made subject to the same taint. 

 Is the horse a scrofulous animal? We believe that he is. 

 What mean those ulcers on the liver, those tubercles in the 

 lungs, those tumors in the glands, if such is not the case? 



In hogs, sheep, cattle, and horses tubercles and ulcers oc- 

 cur in precisely the same localities as those which exhibit 

 scrofulous ulcers in the human being. The lungs and the 

 glands of all these are found, on examination, to have the 

 same structure and functions. The affections of the class we 



