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possible results. The ignorance should indeed be 

 gross, which could conjecture such a vulgar resort 

 was capable of inducing the slightest benefit. 

 Equally objectionable is the custom recommended 

 by the veterinary professors, of shutting an animal 

 up in a close stable, and causing it to inhale the 

 fumes of chlorine gas. Chlorine is an irritant to 

 mucous membranes. If the nasal cavities were the 

 seat of the disease, the passage of the air being- 

 rapid through these channels, and retained for a 

 comparatively long period in the bronchia, the sup- 

 posed remedy would be far more likely to affect the 

 lungs, than to act immediately on the part which it 

 was intended to benefit. In respiration, however, 

 it is not probable that even during health, any large 

 quantity of air enters the sinuses, which, in these 

 cases, are the seats of the disease ; and when those 

 cavities are blocked up by an abnormal secretion, 

 none could possibly gain admittance to them. 

 Chlorine, therefore, obviously is inoperative in the 

 direction where its remedial agency is desired to act; 

 and it does some injury. It violently aflfects the animal 

 which requires to be soothed ; causes it to endure 

 much inconvenience and even suffering; produces 



