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g««9fted Professor R. E. Rogers, of the University of 

 Pennsylvania, on the salt and slush question, a few years 

 ago, whether it was or was not injurious to the health of 

 man or horse to sprinkle salt upon the track to thaw the 

 snow from them. If my argument did not prevent further 

 use of the salt upon the track, it did some good in making 

 it obligatory upon the railway companies to keep all gutters 

 and inlets clear, to allow the slush to escape at once from 

 the street. So I think, it is clearly established, that the 

 cold emanating from the soil, during the process of thawing 

 or breaking up of winter, are great and exciting causes, 

 not only of this disease, but of many others in both man 

 and beast, and which have hitherto been called atmospheric. 

 And in connection with this condition, we have in horses, 

 at least, a want of thefr usual protection, for with the 

 warm sun of spring, the animal throws off his hairy coat, 

 thus as it were unnecessarily exposing himself to these 

 insidious causes of disease. 



Treatment. When cases of this and other diseases of the 

 same type (gastritis mucosa) first came under my care, I 

 treated upon different principles and with different medi- 

 cines than what is here recommended. I look back with 

 extreme dissatisfaction on the false doctrines and false 

 teachings of the books and the schools which have led 

 many inquiring minds astray since their day of teaching 

 commenced. The treatment now recommended is sound, 

 scientific and successful, and in a very short time the horse 

 will be at work again, as if nothing had been amiss. The 

 first day of the disease, give, every four hours, twenty drops 

 of the tincture of aconite root in a little cold water; next day, 

 give the tincture of nux vomica in fifteen drops every four 

 hours, in the same way, till the horse is well, which usually 

 will be about the sixth or seventh day, and sometimes even 



