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Professors of the Veterinary School at INIihin, has published 

 an account of sixteen horses that he cured of the glanders, by 

 means of Ethiops mineral, given internally, and by syrino-ino- 

 the nasal cavities with lime water. One of them, a cast horse 

 from the 1st Regiment of Chasseurs, had been glandered eight 

 months, and Avhen M. Volpi had cured him, he sold him to an 

 officer of the same regiment, to whom the horse had formerly 

 l)elonged, and who knew that he had been glandered. He gave 

 half an ounce every day until the appetite was affected, and there 

 was a slight salivation. Lime water was then given for a short 

 time until the salivation ceased, and the appetite returned. The 

 Ethiops mineral was then given as before, and continued in this 

 manner until the disease was cured. The time in which the 

 cures were accomplished was from two to five months. 



Ethiops Mineral, mixed with an equal quantity of sulphuret 

 of antimony, forms the antimonial Ethiops, and is a good re- 

 medy for cutaneous complaints. The dose, two drachms in the 

 horse's corn. This is the preparation v/hich M. Malouin em- 

 l)loyed for glanders. He gave from half an ounce to an ounce 

 every morning, and a handful of periwinkle, cho})ped up in the 

 horse's mash, every night. He also administered a purgative 

 once in eight days. M. IVIalouin's method of making the anti- 

 monial Ethiops was different from the simple process above men- 

 tioned. He mixed common antimony w^ith quicksilver, either 

 by trituration or by fusion. Bourgelat, however, in his Mature 

 Mcdicale, says, " The character given of this preparation in the 

 public papers, as a remedy for glanders, induced us to give it a 

 trial ; it was administered to several glandered horses, with peri- 

 winkle, as directed by M. Malouin, but it never effected a cure, 

 and, I may add, that in mangy complaints it appeared to be 

 inferior to antimony given alone." 



EUrriOliBI^ GUMMI-RESINA. Euphorbium. A 

 gum resin, that exudes spontaneously from a large oriental tree. 

 It is brought to us in small drops of a pale yellow colour, which 

 are generally mixed w^ith woody and other extraneous matter. 



Euphorbium is used in veterinary practice as an external 

 application. It is generally employed in the form of tincture ; 

 sometimes it is mixed into an ointment with hog's lard, mer- 

 curial ointment, oil of origanum, oil of bay, &c., being pre- 

 viously reduced to a fine powder. It is also frequently an 

 ingredient in strong blisters, to wdiich it proves a powerful 

 auxiliary. In Avhatever form euphorbium is employed, it proves 

 extremely acrimonious and stimulating, and is therefore em- 

 ployed to reduce callous swellings of the back sinews, or other 

 parts ; curbs, windgalls, &c. 



The tincture is made by digesting, or steeping, one ounce of 

 the powder in four or six ounces of rectified or proof spirit ; 



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