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which in water has been found serviceable. The alkalies 

 generally have long been used with variable success. Vine- 

 gar, in the Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, is strongly 

 recommended ; but as it is observed that the elastic fluids 

 developed are not always alike, so the effects resulting from 

 the most reputed agents have too often failed. Mr. Youatt 

 recommends the introduction of the chlorinated lime given 

 in doses of from 5ij to 5iv suspended in water. 



But it is to a foreign veterinarian we are indebted for the 

 best agent for neutralizing the gases given off when the 

 rumen is distended. M. Charlet has recommended the 

 chloride of potash, which substance has a gi'cat affinity for 

 the compounds of hydrogen, that usually form the major 

 portion of those which exist in the stomach. This sub- 

 stance is to be given in doses of an ounce to a horse, 

 half an ounce to a cow, and three drachms to a sheep. 

 Occasionally, however, from the contents of the stomach 

 being in a state of fermentation, no gas will escape, upon the 

 probang or trochar being introduced. The chloride of potash 

 is then to be poured down the probang or trochar, which- 

 ever may be used, and this substance must not be mixed 

 with either mucilage or aromatic bitters, but sulphuric 

 ether and cold water may be joined to it without injuring 

 its effects. 



LAMPAS. 



The symptoms of this imaginary disease are, the horse 

 quids his hay, or refuses his food. It is most common in 

 young horses ; and the groom looks into the mouth of the 

 animal, when perceiving the bars to be almost on a level 

 with the incisor teeth, he pronounces his charge to have 

 the lampas, and takes the poor creature to be burnt within 

 its mouth accordingly. It is true the animal has recovered 

 its appetite by the time the effects of the burn have passed 

 away, but so it would have done had no hot iron been 

 cruelly employed. The fact is, the young animal is then 

 cutting a molar tooth, and a day or two having elapsed, all 

 the fever and pain occasioned by the process would have 

 been over. No man should allow his horse to be burnt for 

 the lampas. It is a torturing, an idle, and a wanton ope- 

 ration, and tends rather to do harm than good. If an old 



