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necessary, it may be emploj^ed again. Observe, in the above 
method, the dose must be administered, and the animal 
watched night and day. The speed and certainty of its 
action amply repays all extra care. 
I have found it specific in sore throat, and highly amelio- 
rative in all affections of the chest. It is not generally known, 
but a scruple of belladonna dissolved in two ounces of water, 
and sparingly but frequently employed as a gargle, will 
remove lingering sore throat in the human being. For severe 
cases of bronchitis, in man, I have taken a bottle containing 
a mixture of the above strength, and have advised the sufferer 
to take a teaspoonful every hour, till he conld neither eat or 
drink, else until he feels a dryness and costriction of the 
throat, and I have never met with a case in which the 
medicine has failed. 
We are all aware of the usual severe means pursued in the 
removal of inflamed lungs in tl^j dog; the severity of the 
measures is not abated ^ven in distemper; and more of these 
animals die of the effects of the ordinary physic, than perish 
from the consequences of the thoracic disease. I have long 
since abolished the fearful remedies I have just alluded to, 
I now depend upon belladonna, which I recommend in the 
form of a pill — a quarter of a grain every hour, or a grain 
three times a day. Myself, I prefer the first-named quantities 
repeatedly administered, but either will answer the purpose. 
METHODS OF SHOEING IRREGULAR AND 
REGULAR CAVALRY HORSES IN INDIA. 
By J. T. Hodgson, V.S. 
“Their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint.” — Isaiah , eh. v, 28. 
'The above description is given by the holy prophet of the 
horses* hoofs that were to be used in the destruction of 
Jerusalem, signifying hardness, which was then, as it now is 
in Asia, considered perfection in horses 5 hoofs. There, the 
temperature at times is as low as 32° Fahrenheit, at other 
times it is 140°, the mean temperature being 70°. 
The heat of the climate and the arid nature of the soil is 
the cause of the hardness. During the periodical rains, or 
when horses are reared in the vicinity of rivers, there are 
occasional exceptions to this hardness of hoof, but from the 
