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gutta percha. Keat, in New York, manufactures the distilled 
product of gutta percha on a large scale. 
The incinerated, crude, dried gutta percha (sample b) con- 
tained 5. 18 per cent, of inorganic substances; the pure gutta 
treated with chloroform 0.314 per cent. ; the crude caoutchouc 
0.487 per cent. ; that combined with chloroform 0.333 per cent. 
These substances consisted in the gutta percha of lime, oxide of 
iron, traces of potash, magnesia, and silica. The bases were 
combined in the ashes with carbonic acid. The ashes of caout- 
chouc were similarly composed. 
About the origin of Getah Malaheoya , the author could 
obtain no further information. In warm water it became soft 
and sticky ; being treated with boiling water, it formed a neutral 
milky liquid, which was precipitated by alcohol. When boiled 
with alcohol it became glutinous, the alcohol extracting a white 
fat, resembling wax and resin ; ether extracted also resin. 
Being dissolved in chloroform, and filtered, a black colouring 
substance remained behind, which could not be dissolved by 
the usual solvents, and was burnt without leaving a residue. It 
appears to be nothing else but soot. The Getah melts at 170°, 
and becomes decomposed only at much higher temperature, 
when dark-coloured oils are distilled off. — Central Blalt., 1851, 
No. ii, p. 17. 
VETERINARY HOMOEOPATHY. 
[Without pretending to any knowledge or faith in homoeopathy 
ourselves, we extract the subjoined cases, to which our attention 
has been only lately directed, from The British Journal of 
Homoeopathy for July 1850.] — Ed. Vet. 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO VETERINARY PATHOLOGY AND 
HOMCEOPATHY. 
By W. Haycock, of Huddersfield. 
Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. 
Irritation of the Bowels. 
Case I. 
August ls£, 1849. — Was aroused during the night to attend 
upon a horse, the property of Mr. John Bray, residing in 
Swallow-street, in this town. 
History, fyc. — The animal is of the draught breed, and is ge- 
nerally employed during the night in the removal of night soil ; 
the labour is not severe, but it is of a tedious character. About 
two hours ago the animal was observed to exhibit symptoms of 
