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finely levigated antimony. The dose of Ethiop's mineral is half 

 an ounce, once or twice a clay, according to circumstances. A 

 hoi'se readily eats it in his corn. During the whole of the treat- 

 ment, the horse should be regularly exercised and cleaned, and 

 be fed with the best hay and a moderate quantity of oats. 

 The medicine should be continued until the constitution appears 

 to be affected by it ; that is, until the mouth becomes sore, the 

 appetite diminished, the bowels loosened, or until the disorder is 

 subdued. The nose of the glandered horse should be kept clean 

 by sponging it now and then, and the rack and manger should 

 be kept as clean as possible. The stable should be kept clean, 

 and properly ventilated. The only objection to working a 

 glandered horse moderately, is the danger there may be of his 

 infecting others, through the carelessness of the person who has 

 the care of him. A little work rather contributes to health and 

 cheerfulness ; and it should never be forgotten, that by making 

 a horse comfortable and cheerful, we improve the digestive 

 functions, and thereby strengthen the constitution. 



The infected horses that gradually got well without medicine, 

 in Mr. Russel's glandered teams, owed their recovery, I^ have 

 no doubt, in great measure to the comfortable state they were 

 kept in, being taken gi'eat care of, having always the best food 

 and good stables, and being always with their companions, and 

 in moderate but regular work. 



[Professor Sewell has for some years been in the habit of 

 giving the sulphate of copper, in large doses of four and six 

 drachms, which being administered in the form of a draught, 

 and with plenty of linseed meal, is not found to produce that 

 erosion of the stomach which the same dose given as a ball 

 would occasion. This medicine is doubtless a powerful tonic, 

 and thus assists the constitution of the animal in throwing off 

 the disease ; but Mr. Sewell, I believe, considers that it has in 

 addition some specific action on the malady. In addition to 

 this Mr. Sewell frequently inserts setons over the face. By this 

 treatment cures have unquestionably been effected, and Mr. 

 Sewell used For many years a mare that he had cured of glanders. 

 These successful cases, however, are exceedingly few, compared 

 with the number submitted to treatment. 



Mr. Vines, in a work published some years since on glanders, 

 recommends powdered cantharides in doses of four to twelve 

 grains, together with gentian and ginger, one to three drachms 

 each, and caraway seeds one to two drachms. A ball thus com- 

 posed he has administered daily to glandered horses, and in 

 some cases with success. Other practitioners likewise testify to 

 the valuable tonic properties of this medicine thus administered, 

 and in numerous instances I have seen its good effects. 



Mr. Storry relates several instances of glandered horses cured 



