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fresh lights upon it, and such a man as Mr. Mayhew possessed 
the talent to discern what had not struck the attention of 
those before him, and to change lengthy, complex, and 
crochetty means of treatment into modes more comprehensive 
and yet simpler, more practical, and more effectual. The 
work will be useful to general readers, too fond of pursuing 
lines of practice bordering rather on superstition than on 
rational modes of procedure : it will also prove valuable to 
the practical veterinarian, in pointing out to him fresh ways 
of accomplishing his objects, in a manner more in accordance 
with nature’s own line of procedure than probably may have 
occurred to his mind before. 
Foreign Department. 
PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON THE ADMINISTRATION 
OE MEDICINES TO DOMESTIC ANIMALS BY THE MOUTH. 
By M. Eug. Fischer, Y.S. of the First Class. 
Through all the surfaces over which the veterinarian can 
pass the medicines he prescribes, that of the stomach and 
intestines is the one to which he has most frequent recourse. 
This, likewise, in domestic animals offers most facility and 
access for medicine. Its sensibility is active, the sympathies 
it has with most organs is greater, and medicinal molecules 
and absorption from it with the greatest facility. 
In the introduction of medicinal substances into the 
stomach, we sometimes meet with great difficulties in the 
force of resistance animals are capable of opposing. There 
are horses who will not take medicine at all through the 
mouth without being cast. Every practitioner is aware how 
contrary an animal may be when one comes to force him to 
take a drink, especially a strong bull, or a large hog. Most 
medicines admit of being exhibited internally, with in- 
difference under the different forms of solid and liquid, with- 
out anywise notably altering their effects. Nevertheless, 
there are some which admit not of employment under this or 
that form. On which account it is that the practitioner is 
forcibly compelled to conform to the exigences of science. 
However this may be, I have had occasion to see, in re- 
