538 ANOTHER DEATH FROM PHYSICKING. 
volume from such sources as could only afford scanty infor- 
mation on “ Veterinary Medicines.” If Morton’s c Veterinary 
Pharmacy * is not made of such material as is admissible at 
the Edinburgh Veterinary College, and is so “ meagre and 
inaccurate ” as to be worthless in the eyes of Mr. Dun, we 
would ask those who have seen and read Mr. Dun’s work, 
whether that gentleman has supplied the veterinary surgeon 
and student of veterinary medicine with a book calculated to 
fill up the supposed deficiency ? 
I am, Mr. Editor, 
A M.R.C.V.S., 
And one who for some years has referred with advantage 
to Morton’s e Veterinary Pharmacy . ’ 
September , 1854. 
ANOTHER DEATH FROM “ PHYSICKING.” 
By John Brown. 
Dear Sir, — In the last month’s number of your invalua- 
ble periodical (for September), p. 447, there is a case related 
of death caused to a horse by physicking. This reminds me of 
an observation of an old and respectable veterinary surgeon, 
long since gone to that u bourne from whence no traveller 
returns,” who told me that 6i he killed a horse once by giving 
him a dose of physic.” The horse was in perfect health 
before he had the physic, but the owner wishing him to have 
purging medicine, the horse had been kept without food some 
time before he had the physic, and some time after. He was 
soon taken ill with all the symptoms of gastritis, and died. 
When opened, the stomach was found empty, and the ball 
lying on the coats of the stomach, causing considerable in- 
flammation around, and which, in his opinion, was the cause 
of death. The ball was composed only of aloes. He told me 
this was a lesson to him ever after, never to give physic to a 
horse on an empty stomach. 
I remain, yours truly. 
23, Whitefriars Street ; 
August 28, 1854. 
