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A Manual of Pharmacy for the Student of Veterinary 
Medicine, &c. By W. J. T. Morton, &c. 
In our printer’s hands, at this moment, so far advanced as 
to be all but ready to take its flight from the press, is a New 
Edition of this work ; of which, we understand, every article 
has been, by its author, very carefully revised and brought up 
to the present state of science ; while many new' ones have 
been added, thereby augmenting the size of the volume to no 
inconsiderable extent. Our opinion being already known 
and expressed of former editions, we cannot but await w ith 
pleasure the forthcoming one, making the fifth impression of 
a work which has experienced an unusually large and rapid 
sale, though by no means one incommensurate with its sterling 
worth and general utility. 
Foreign Department. 
OBSERVATIONS ON PREMEDITATED POISONING OF 
DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 
By M. Eugene Ayrault, V.S. at Niort (Aux Sivres). 
Although the facts I am about to disclose are not of that 
importance which they w^ould be reckoned to be in human 
medicine, still do they possess historic interest sufficient 
to give them a place in the annals of science. If such examples 
of crime as I am going to relate, be not so frequent among 
men towards animals as among men towards one another, 
yet, perhaps, are they not so rare as one might imagine, from 
the small number of such as have come to light. 
In any case, the observations I am about to make known, 
may serve to throw light upon the nature of such facts, and 
put Veterinarians on their guard in relation to them, at a 
time w 7 hen they might remain involved in obscurity, should 
they not be led into the probability of diagnostic. 
FIRST OBSERVATION. 
In January, 1848, a farmer, by the name of Lhoumault, 
at the stud of Martigny, near Niort, came to ask me to come 
