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MYLABRIS V. CANTHARIDES. 
more horses than you, but I have not only the medical treat- 
ment of them, but the cleaning, feeding, watering, and gelding 
of them ; and I am nearly in the same predicament as yourself 
with cocks and caulds, and yet my big master the commandant 
gen., says, I have nothing to do, and that if it came to my 
turn for promotion he will look over me ; my hearty, I wish he 
was in my place, on my pay for six months, and if he is worth 
a curse he w ould wish himself elsew here, as I often do, but 
let him try to look over me, I am too old to lose anything, 
and have served too long and honestly to sit down quietly under 
the ban of any muckworm. I got my present, and increase 
of pay in spite of him, and so will I my promotion if it comes 
to me. 
I would go awfully ahead of you, sir, with children if Mrs. 
Simpson brought to the w 7 orld safe all she carries, for here 
I am in all sorts of bustle, and she must take it into her head 
to miscarry the second time ; but I have enough, four 
children, an inimical commandant gen. and a host of troubles, 
my heart is often en route to my heels, but I always pull him 
back to the old hole, with what do you take me to be, an 
hysterical mare or an old woman ? 
I lost a horse yesterday, the first for a long time, with in- 
flammation of lungs and heart. Did you ever feel any dif- 
ference of temperature in a horse’s breathing in inflammation 
of the lungs ? I found it so to a very great degree yester- 
day morning with this horse, one lobe was in a sad state 
of decay, and the breath on that side was much warmer than 
the other nostril ; at least I fancied so, and so did my native 
assistant. 
I am. Sir, 
Your most obedient servant, &c. 
March 25, 1854. 
MYLABRIS t;. CANTHARIDES. 
By Henry Daws, M.R.C.V.S., London. 
Dear Sir, — I forgot to inform you yesterday that I had 
tried the mylabris chicorii in two or three shapes, in the pro- 
portion of 1 part to 32 of lard, oil, or dilute acetic acid, as 
advised by your correspondent (Mr. — , I can’t recollect) in 
the c Veterinarian and fully confirm his assertions relative to its 
effects, in fact the preparations might be still further reduced 
in strength. I respectfully beg your acceptance of a little of 
