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p > neglect Kan is to sacrifice perhaps a valuable | Saad bd givin ng a drench either with a a ho rnor r a glass bottle, | Norfolk F. tl ME ea 
G O se hie ess you in favour of any system whic. an accom b 
anit while cious t1 a tor improper e plish its end in this way Bó mich for the administration of | U8. chief de is £ 
skillu te the & o n edicine. When a horse is eee of colic, me Pee — 1852, and he himself pot iy ye the Paper read iby ne 
T aterivary surgeon wh ne 4 es.. in the hope | if prac , be plac soon as possible in an 7 
he the treatment of sheep and cattle will be taken up and clothed, for the surface soon loses its heat, Ri the cure is nths ago 
tha! f aa E a conne] little more tedious when the horse gets cold. Every particle | ™ “ i K vat d tër 
mo y by ore er > of food must be taken from him, and a clyster of plain tepid n the autumn and winter of 1852, and the spring 
myo ervations migre particularly to the treatment of | water thrown up. I would pos the Sie enema recom- | and summer of 1853 es specially, when the fall of rain was 
horses, having had more experience in losing them, and pags by f act it would be d as fi Set Tantin ol Shine ca greater epetan than had b years, the 
it wi would be dangerous to a ce by mea 
taving crereiare “directed my attention more to that | > the Eyre ai; Ae thet Ye po diie EIE ancther OPE mey sustained in property of all descriptions, a nd to 
of the subje ami Ta to all must first be performed. Plain tepid water, | human and animal life, was ae and appalling. 
A ls hd a most parts of the county is very | and moderate quantity, forms the best clyster. The Thor nants of acres o ay were destroyed in the 
keep the horses up to the mark, and be able to lon nge: ri it 1emains on the better, as more of it is taken up by | summer of 1853, and thousands of sheep, lambs, and 
severe; to A A A 
overtake Ma labour in good season, they mu ust be highly fed. po we cedan If necessary repeat it in an hour. Meantime, cattle drown ed. As you ie ell ed, all the Jow lands 
High feedin and hard work involve a delicacy of many of the ea dose of aconite, to be repeated twice at intervals of 15 nds 
internal organs, particularly a liability to indigestion and in- ed 20 Pie 8. Sometimes the second dose is all tha 
flammatory complaints. A change of fodder, more particularly | needed. The aconite keeps down fever and inflammation, | was the land in the au n and winter of -a that it 
from white to Bean straw, a long journey, or a hard day’s ana unles s you are very positive of the absence of all ten- as ‘found in meebo to. sow the aaa 
oughing in an exposed situation during cold windy weather, | dency in ‘that = you should always commence the t di br dth of land 
pong uently followed by an attack of indigestion, spasmodic | treatment oe Nees After the ponite ve nux vomica, if | ¢xtraor E readth of land was omitted, ei be sown 
orfstulent colic, which, if not checked, runs its course, and it is the a on which causes the attack, and putas if m with that g It was, in fact, on n those lands 
ends in es x of Lys ite so “Inflammation of A phe en’ Ak and bs AR ie agony is very great, a aE EES 31 
is uncommon, and cuts off so nsider- e uc! up rath n swelled, et shiv Be s 
Tange ser v used to sink under influenza, ap Maa the om od ap} topriate emedy ; br onia, if the attack can be the seed rn be gol i in at all; and so Lien was the 
ynary profession have set their face against bleeding, the mo raced exposure to cold; colocynth, if to green | produce grate m the wetness of the season, may but 
ility is greatly lessened—the farmers’ own fleams also beng food: ecitiar lion if: to spasm of the bladder. With! fora lar ock of old English, and an equ ly large 
m doubt more seldom used. Indigestion or colic, however, | these remedies I n had the sutisfaction of seeing idporta Pi of foreign wheat öf which were 
smetimes passes into infammation of the lungs, and some- | every ease yield to mv treatment, and some of them pre- d bef, he followi id 
tines influenza supervenes, when a tedious case of obstruction | sented a nE oA alarming appearance during their pro- | Consumed before the following harvest, a famine must 
bg bowels has yielded to the remedies employed ; and this ess. I had mart case of acute founder, all’ traces of | have ensued. The deficiency t eason amounted to 
a case e too likely to end fatally. I believe we may safely say | which had coniclstaiy aisappoared the following morning, | 11 million en and it bey met by a stock of 6 
that the deaths of nine-tenths'of the horses lost in this county | without ble porting or purging, any other than the home- millions of ia ? and npe fi t a, 1 
have been aama through colic and obstruction of the bowels. | opathic treatment. I know tat statements like these are iy aps lions of imporse leaving 
in most cas li me the animal sinks, after the original RTE met by the Faculty with the answer, ‘‘Oh, these cases 
s re overcome, under prostration of the vital | would have recovered any way—they got better just because “ ga ER tem M arterial rete been carried out 
d by the strong medicines employed, and neces- | they got nothing.” If you should be told that such cases 
m W come the ENA ET the ayetern sasali and all | recover better when let alone, than when treated according to previous to that disastrous season, np land would have 
font universally followed by the profession. But however | the established rules of medical colleges, dispute it not, but cleared itself of Water as fast as it fell; and n ot o; only 
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accept the information and save both your pockets and your 
beasts. persed is not Ra 4 eee ay Pa een erie Re Lhe 1 Wł ld } } 
in, aid the crop would have sustained lessi injury. It 
MY fairl 
year alone, for want of a proper outfall for the to 
ti 
si ly impre: i : oe 
done by the bc at ange of large doses of powerful medicine, | ete oa hee nehe D Pa action of OLANE. as much so 
ved on igatin on | tio me 
isso ad the a following « pey, from Mr. Clarke 
T re r a young calf or will sh 
oe of ey. toe nothing r ki sx pies globules, | foal. ie first m £ ae tried was a calf, and I think that I 
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paper 
hy Ber sepse 1852 the Severn and Wye rose to an alarming 
height; the former river, at Gloucester and p epia rising 
in ge pow 18 inches upon the megdows. r part of 
the of Hereford was so flooded b; ay Wee that the 
e if he d mai atoia i r t has anki 
arrive at a rule for himself, perhaps without any direct fatal | afflicted have aie th toed vered under the same treatment. 
‘result, if he does not deal in strong tinctures. Every book on In the oer ge of Scan A teast ton nothing else than pe ae e 
homæœæopathy recommends, and every practitioner employs doses ay treatment, and wi e most valuable thorough-bred co 
and dilutions differing from one another; and it is a curious | in the Eei possible hae at time of calving, I Faa 
fact, that as experience begets confidence in the powers of the that alon ward off fever = etn both i a summer 
‘meditines higher dilutions are more frequently employed. If | and w TO Prot my expe of homceopathic 
any professional gentlemen are now present, Iam sure they | medicine to ede eto Gad ig highly satisfactory yess of 
will understand that my wish is not to depreciate their ser- the e imperfect application of it by myself, I feel a 
re overflowed, 
covered with u salis trees ena crops, furniture, and drowned 
animals. In the valley of the Teme, | which river came down 
j with a “‘ head ” similar to the “ bore, tidal phenomenon, on 
‘vices, but to see another powerful weapon put into their hands T that it alone presents eae means with “whieh to washed i i 
‘for the public good. I submitted my views to my own veter- mbat that deadly disease the pleuro-pneumonia, which has 
inary surgeon, in whose skill and knowledge of his profession hitherto baffied medical A È a few of our nomen will 
I have the highest confidence. Having received his disapproval | take up the subject, and e still further the experiments I 
of the system, I had no alternative but to parlick . gr and | have begun, patiently, inpartialiy, and zealously, with a ye 
rick of md of about 12 tons was bodily moved by the flood. 
pe my way in the dark with such as e as I could deiir to elicit truth, La am convinced that hefo ore all y The Hop suffered 
e simi : u wil nave be system : 
or subjects 
o jada nieh oes in the aona valley 
apon the subject. I to wait long for ; ‘whe u c nto the : $ 
ment be I have had as many cases of sickness as ipis you 7 e best were 3 and at : t S 
7. ly, and where not involving surgical aid, every case cair tree ih garazi prac- | 20 feet above its ordinary da 
the argos ae been treated honno rae a the last two ad tice of this, the on Sioa St eae its ini and. zep ipie 
a half In the only two instances in which I have bd for every disease, w. iat to patil led frame with | hood. The lag a ed its ——— t many points; 
silted peg it, I have seen roneo ito regret oig so. Itis not | painful applications and nauseous which leave their} and numero mulai into rivers, 
to be expeeted that I am to report a great variety of anes. sting bel -them, and without Geari a of one drop |-broke their mbes meartl, Posate bananas of acres, and the 
The cases coming under my treatment have however been | of that generous blood which, under this er E REN car | Hereford and Goy ucester —_ — with one of a 
‘sufficiently formidable to prove interesting to all who seek to | be safely reserved to carry her patient t sengers, was lost in the Froo: All the 
obtain néw light on the treatment of such cases. They are | life with the prospect of rapid convalescence. vale of Gloucester fae prising a a it t flat district on each side 
Ban rised under the heads of common colds, influenza, spas- | Mr. Scott, Skirving, Campton, entirely agreed with Mr. Syd- | of the wide sea, ae Wk covering 
c and flatulent eng Bid dis, 22 of the bowels, and acute | serff in think ing that to make horses take laudanum, could | the fences, leaving fag only the topaof the trees vis ê es 
onder and they have all been eii checked before | only be justified on the ground of the disease amounting to | of madhu! Lougney, Elmore, and other villages near the 
passing into the Tater Senin of these diseases. e fleams, | agony; and he was perfectly right in saying that it retarded | river, were completely deserted, the inhabitants having fled to 
the blister, and:the physic ball-have been banished from my | the cure of the horse, ‘because it dulled all the vital energies. | more elevated country. In some localities the houses 
rem: to the Hie tres advantage. of the bes mo who have | As to homeopathy, he would not ture to give any opinion, | conipletely submerged, only the chimneys rem: y 
t ent, and except in em case of those ious | but he might remark this, the first case of pleuro-pneu- l the dock houses, an of 
colds ar 8 perp us so m' w ey come into a large | monia he had seen under ment was à bullock of his own. | churches, undated, and the city was three nights in 
Stable, every case but one was placer cured, and the horse | Pro: rant? Ee of Edinburgh meres to hear of the | darkness, owi e flooding of the gas works. At Tewkes- 
teady for work in a, fe and the case excepted teered to give it medicine at a time when it ry, ts were employed to rescue the inhabitants. At 
thoroughly cured l4 ery drug has the power to | was aiaa; The animal it became a Shrewsbury, the Abbey Church and naa A hi wi 
luce morbid symptoms on the healthy body, and every noy useless, and never fattened ai und >» and ti deluge exten: over several 
g has its own distinct and specific train of symptoms. as 15 eaat and since that time homœo- the surroun ERTE i Piri scone he 
These have been made the subject of experiment, sin d pathic t treatment Sen have Sell hardly subsided, the ho 
on healthy subjects, by Hahn n and his follo’ , and Mr. .8., in answer to some calls, said he had never | Shrewsbury a suffered, m for many 
have been carefully collected and recorded for the benefit = had an: E AASS in homeopathy, belie it to be wrong. it to the depth of several feet; so that 
the profession and of humanity. he principle on which w If a cow took ill with constipation in the wels, she might | in p! long the Shrewsbury and C! , and also 
Proceed is, that the drug which produces certain p se get-a lb. of salts in Linseed oil and ginger, as it ‘would take | the Shropshire Union and Shrewsbury an irmi am 
will cure similar symptoms when present as a morbid state of | all that to operate on a well-fed animal. Were the animal | ways, as far e he i could reach, the land was be P OARA 
the bod: On the truth of this principle, homcopa peera on the homæœo ic principle, she would get nux | drowned, to the vast damage of seeds and plants in 
stands or falls, and the. siz he do se has nothing ca, but the only effect it would have would be that of a | The almo: ba unprecedented fall of rain during the latt ter Ligne of 
Whatever to do with it. hen it is remembered that the Might * sedative. K to bleeding and blistering horses for colic, | 1852 produced similar disasters in the south-west counties. At 
icine selected to al lay fever is that which produces fever- | that theory was now entirely done away with. In cases ofj Bath the river Avon overflowed, the water reaching 10 feet 
wha t nux vomica which produces such l spasms | colic give nitrous gees with Linseed oil, and perhaps next | above the ordinary level, and inundating a great many houses, 
or atsenic, which produces such internal agony, are selected | morning a slight physic ball; and it would be four re no bad | the inhabitants taking refuge in their upper apartments, and 
tocure violent colic, it must appear re le to reduce the | thing to give the animal a good smart rubbing with turpentine | receiving supplies of food by boats. In the neighbourhood of 
dose ensions as will reduce the likelihood of | and mustard. One of the most frequent complaints was cold. | Bristol an immense amount of property was destroyed. The 
violently aggravating the disease under treatment. In prac- | If this occurred in the stable, three-fourths of the animals took | central basin of Somersetshire, or the marshes dnd moors 
tice it is found that oe medicine may be diluted. vad the dose | the same disease. The best plan was to put them intoa loose about the rivers Parret, Axe, and Brue, between Bridgewater, 
Teduced to & poin which the aggravation f ntirely dis- | box before they got into the stable; give them pleni pb of venti- Wells, and Glastonbury, were completely under water, render- 
appears. rian this point it is found that the dose may be | lation, and clothe thom well; but as to bleeding, or anything | ing all trafhe wholly ble, , Th 
ly reduced without impairing its curative action. | of the kind, in cases cf iofinenga, f tbis was ied m * 78 . In| Taunton flooded; port an pon 
The | d ofan, which in health would be utterly insen- | cases, o of pfierperal, or nly. called, milk: fever, | the water seoumulsted ty a dietetics epeh ana to 
‘sible to a quantity of medicinal substance SA ra the disease, ni aay Pie Towra d very fa on ie the heavy loss of the and. 
nedicine, i being in too pee Ame district. In Dev the rivers Lemau and 
Teoma thousandth part of a si of the medicine, is | brought on eg e animals g high rg ee te 
ic to its present diseased condition. This is an im- | the fat esi fiora a off the cow before ve Dino Raan Abbot, mi, Hood thelr iccous ia n 
Unusual antace, for sometimes the system is o be | and bran Manrara TE ee ; 4 Ícted with inundal - 
confined to the Toa te action of the medicine, and were we valley of the Thames- In 1546 all the low lands 
moth „to the lower, that is the stronger dilutions, or the Yor mina above dry ge pes Windsor several 
trom their poe — + denier th wy ee age Reviews. feet in depth, and a great portion bz! fe "Home Park of the 
re the curative action of the medicine ve é ly under water. Again an | 
herd aio, For these reasons I advise ev aes orp not to di ear housands of in the same 
him Mat oven to aa aer porienoe Hirohhsrs — advise The Journal of a toons No. 69, July, 1860. | were overflowed. by the Thames and the Kennett. Jn ‘July 
i mit into his medicine ibe pa angerous r 4 1852 similar fl y-fie wi 
ome ae ha mother tinctures of aconite, arsenicum, nux Blackwood & Sons n penha ing indicated only by the appearance of 
k's the stron The first centessimal dilution of these medicines The current eli éontains, among other papers, | scattered hay-making machines and other implements. I 
y roe famas familiar with ty ee np ees eag Th ai has | | review of Darwin’s book on the Origin of Species, November and December of t Pagine: yonr X ne volley. from 
Animals are not Oe Epi Orde Burn on the Agriculture of Belgium, a | Vauxhall to Windsor was a A = PTS 
Tan. The us al eee so sensitive to the action of medicine as | Notes by Mr. Burn Old Norfolk Farmer, | 73 sea of. water, the Cherwell and Isis being miles in width, 
i I give it in bags ose for a horse‘or cow is 10 drops. To cattle | paper on Arterial Drainage by an C orto! i >| vast amount of cattle and agricultural produce being carried 
ta little fi cea Ming econ re ee ee essays on the Management and Diseases of Cattle and | away from the vicinity, and several lives lost com- 
adr afi a in a horn spoon, drop the medicine upon it, y rt of proceedings in t boratory. | puted that 600 n the Oxfordshire side of the Thames 
Quletly un a ot water and make it into a thin paste; go | Dr. andano orig P ; 5 ther should | were under water from September 1852 to Webeoary sy At 
Spor RA cared the animal if he is standing, or go down on | Ag jt is a topic which if the wet weather should) Maiden feeding, Baling, Uxbridge, and other 
With one hand, er neers oan ene Saainae will doubtless again acquire considerable im- places, the principal corn-fields were pre See) with, — 
©. You have iagi bata ani gather rg n = portance, we make the following extract from the Old | feet of water, and the number of houses inundated w 
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