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is stationary. Dress the ulcers with solut. cupri sulph., and let 
him take the ball thrice to-day. 
4 th. — Appears to have regained all his good health and spirits. 
3*ij twice a-day. 
5th. — The ulceration has extended a little. Let him take the 
ball thrice a-day. At night he refused his food, and appeared 
ill from the medicine ; but in the morning of the 
6th. — He had again recovered himself; and so the ball was con- 
tinued thrice in the day. 
1th. — Medicine as yesterday. 
8 th. — 3iij twice a-day. One of the submaxillary glands dimi- 
nishing. 
9 th, 1 0th, 11 th, Ylth. — His appetite continuing very good, and 
there being no perceptible alteration in his excretions or in himself, 
indeed in any way, on each of these days he took the 3iij twice. 
13/A. — The glanders is making progress, but not rapidly. Try 
one ball of 3yj to-day ; given in the morning. 
14/A, 15/A, 16/A. — The 3yj ball was repeated each day. 
17/A. — The disease rapidly advancing. Let him take to-day 
3xij of the silver. 
18/A. — The large dose of yesterday took him a little off his feed; 
but there are no symptoms present to-day indicative of any serious 
disturbance ; and, as the glanders is now hurrying into the acute 
and last stage, it was deemed, under all circumstances, useless to 
push the experiment further, and, therefore, the patient was this 
day destroyed. 
The Post-mortem Examination disclosed nothing occasioned 
by the medicine, save a blush upon the villous membrane of the 
stomach. 
Antimonium — Antimony. 
We need feel no surprise that a mineral so abundant and cheap 
as antimony should from very early times* have found its way 
into veterinary practice ; nor, indeed, from its universally acknow- 
ledged utility in human medicine, that it should have met with a 
good amount of laudation as a veterinary remedy. The common 
or crude antimony — the sesqui-sulphuret of the present pharma- 
copoeia — is readily disengaged by fusion from the ore, and comes 
to us in lumps or cakes of inky blackness, bespattered, like granite, 
with sparks of metallic brilliancy. In this rude form antimony 
has been administered to horses and cattle very extensively; with 
what success, however, to us, even at the present day, seems very 
doubtful. The following experiment may serve to shew what its 
real or perceptible operation is on horses. 
