ON POULTRY LOUSINESS IN THE HORSE. 229 
water or vinegar. Should these applications not prove suc- 
cessful, frictions of mercurial ointment, alternated with alkaline 
lotions, will speedily effect a cure. Camphorated preparations — 
spirituous or oily — are very useful in allaying burning itching. 
Recueil de Med. Vet., Oct. 1850. 
*** This is a disease which is either in itself novel to us, or 
else, if known before, which has not, that we remember, yet 
been made the subject of essay or description. From our earliest 
boyhood we can remember that a visit to the hen-roost, parti- 
cularly when made by females, was apt to be followed by a com- 
plaint that the fowls’ lice had got about the persons of the visitors ; 
but we have no recollection of any such occurrence having been 
made the subject either of complaint or suspicion as regarded 
horses ; although we can bring to mind cases in which, through 
chance or necessity, the stable happened to be situated close to 
the hen-roost, or even the hens were roosting in the stable. 
It would be idle and useless for us to pretend to enter into the 
discussion of a question ere we have ascertained, for a truth, 
that its merits are grounded in fact. For our own part, we 
have no experience to adduce in favour of its verity. Some 
one or more of our subscribers, however, may have something 
to say on the subject ; and if he or they should have, we ear- 
nestly request that, on the present occasion, such intelligence will 
not be withheld from our pages, since it is no less called for on 
the side of the channel on which the subject has been broached 
than it is now in our own domain. M. Bouley, the author of 
the paper on the disease in question, with whom we have had 
the honour of some friendly professional correspondence — in- 
forms his readers, that three years ago M. Demilly gave an 
account of the transmission in the “ Comptes Rendus de la 
Societe Veterinaire de la Marne," though by himself it was 
noticed so long ago as some ten years back. Nevertheless, he 
tells us, at the foot of his account, that his paper amounts but to 
an “ imperfect sketch” ( esquisse imparfaite) of a disease as 
yet but mal observee, and he solicits any observations the 
readers of his Journal (“ Le Recueil " ) may have collected on 
the subject. So that, after all, the French veterinarians them- 
selves are by no means sure of their mark. 
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