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ON THE USE OF TOBACCO. 
Treatment . — Having first elevated her head and shoulders, I 
had recourse to venesection until approaching syncope. I then 
gave a very strong dose of cathartic medicine ; emptied the rectum, 
which contained a quantity of hard faeces, and gave an enema. I 
next applied blankets, dipped in boiling water and wrung out, to 
the whole spine, as hot as she could bear them without great un- 
easiness. 
Four o'clock, P.M. — Pulse 60, softer — body warm — bowels 
rumbling — large quantities of hard faeces passed during the after- 
noon — and she has made several violent but ineffectual endeavours 
to rise. I ordered the bath to be discontinued, the body to be well 
rubbed with wisps, and dry rugs and bandages to be put on. I 
gave aloes, carbonate of ammonia, and ginger, in water, and ap- 
plied oil of cantharides along the spine. 
2 5th . — Four o’clock, A.M. : With a little assistance she got 
upon her legs, but can make very little use of either of her hind ones. 
Eight o'clock, A.M. — The paralytic state of the hind quarters 
appears unaltered — she has lain or rather fallen down again. Repeat 
the hot bath to her loins for three hours, and then rub in a fresh 
blister and give a fever ball. 
26^A. — The constitutional excitement is fast disappearing. The 
loss of nervous power is principally confined to the off-hind quar- 
ter : give strychnia two grains twice a-day. 
21th . — My patient is evidently improving: continue the 
strychnia. 
She took the medicine twice a-day until the 30th ; she was 
then put into a large loose box for three weeks, and from that 
period to the present time has been working in apparent health. 
ON THE USE OF TOBACCO FOR HORSES. 
By the same. 
As the merits of this drug have of late been canvassed, I freely 
say that experience and attentive observations for several years 
past have fully convinced me that, as a therapeutic, and under the 
eye of the scientific practitioner who has judgment in the selection 
of proper cases, it possesses properties equal, if not superior, to 
any other drug we have yet placed in our materia medica. I am 
induced, after a long and extensive trial, thus boldly to offer my 
opinion. I have given it by the mouth in the form of a draught 
in upwards of four hundred cases of spasmodic and flatulent colic, 
constipation, strangulated hernia, and other diseases of the stomach 
