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service. You will perceive, also, that no opinion regarding 
it was requested from, nor reports on the result of its trial 
by, Army veterinary surgeons ; therefore, at this moment, 
its true value is perfectly unknown to the government. 
“ Eight days are required to salivate,” says the recipe; 
three days for physic and ten more of rest, before this game 
begins again, make 21 days. Should this require repetition 
to the fourth time, 84 days are expended, and by that time 
the wet season is expended also, and the sores, as Mr. 
Hodgson justly remarks and every one here knows, gene- 
rally heal of themselves ; and who can be certain that saliva- 
tion four times repeated will not produce results equally 
serious, as occur in man ? 
To the “ green ointment” few will be inclined to attribute 
any marvellous properties, for it is composed of a single 
ounce of verdigris (a mild erodent) added to four pounds of 
other materials, not one of which to an ulcer is more than a 
stimulant. 
“If the edges of the sores require eating down,” says the 
recipe, “ a powder composed of equal parts of sulphate of zinc 
and blue vitriol , finely powdered, should be rubbed in ;” but, 
continues the recipe , “ when they begin to look healthy they 
may be healed, like any other sore, by iEgyptiacum.” 
Now, according to Morton’s c Veterinary Pharmacopoeia/ 
iEgyptiacum is composed of nine ounces of verdigris, six 
ounces of alum, and one and a half pound of treacle; and this 
is the healing ointment of the recipe, to assist nature in over- 
coming the supposed powerful effect of the caustic “ green 
ointment,” composed of one ounce of verdigris to four pounds 
of lard and turpentine, and which causes all the diseased 
parts to slough off ! ! 
My humble opinion of the disease is, that it is essentially a 
disease of debility , and therefore should be treated by tonics ; 
and I have yet to learn that salivations four times repeated 
can thus be considered. 
The parts generally affected are, as Mr. Hodgson remarks, 
the extremities, face, sheath, fetlocks, &c., — in short, parts 
furthest removed from the centre of the circulation, where 
the blood flows the least vigorously, and which are reduced 
to extreme debility by the relaxing effects of an atmosphere 
overloaded with moisture for a lengthened period, over- 
throwing the balance of vital energy which exists in health 
between absorption and deposit. 
The writer of the recipe says, “ when the sores begin to 
look healthy they may be treated like other sores,” which is 
quite true. Their primary appearance is precisely described 
