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remedies are employed at an early period. 

 Foxglove, on these occasions, would perhaps 

 greatly assist the other remedies, particu- 

 larly in inflammation of the lungs. It has 

 been lately introduced into veterinary prac- 

 tice, but was not attended with the expected 

 success. The complaint in which it has 

 been chiefly employed, is swelling of the 

 legs, but it does not appear to do much 

 good. I have several times given it by way 

 of expermient, and though 1 cannot say in 

 what particular cases it will be found cura- 

 tive, yet I am of opinion, from the observa- 

 tions I then made, that it will be found, un- 

 der proper management, a valuable remedy 

 in those fevers which depend on internal 

 inflammation, as also in catarrh, when the 

 inflammatory symptoms are considerable. 

 I believe no one will dispute, that if we can 

 find a method of diminishing inflammatory 

 action in the internal organs, without de- 

 priving the system of so great a quantity of 

 the vital fluid, as is found absolutely neces- 

 sary, on such occasions, it will be an invalu- 

 able discovery. No medicine appears bet- 

 ter adapted to this purpose than foxglove ; 



