EFFECTS OF MEDICINE ON HORSES. 
Ill 
Two horses having nasal gleets of a character so ambiguous as 
to create suspicion, were, in the year 1804, at the request of 
Mr. Coleman, submitted by my father to the operation of crude 
antimony. 
Sept. Ylth, 13 th, 14 th and 15th. — Ounce doses of the antimony 
were given to each horse, morning and evening. 
16^A, YIth, 18 th and 19 th. — The ounce was administered thrice 
daily, without anywise affecting either of them. 
From the 20 th to the 2 5th inclusive, being the six following 
days, the horses took, each, two ounces thrice a-day, without 
effect. 
On the 2 5th they commenced taking the enormous quantity of 
four ounces three times a-day, making to each three quarters of a 
pound daily ; and these immense doses they continued receiving 
for seven successive days, there being evident during the time, 
copious diuresis, impairment of appetite, and loss of condition, and 
this to such an extent that in the end both horses became greatly 
reduced in embonpoint. The medicine was now discontinued, and 
little length of time afterwards elapsed before both of them had in a 
great measure recovered their former condition. From Sept. 12th 
to October 2d, a period of one-and-twenty days, each horse had 
administered to him eight pounds and three quarters of antimony. 
Of the preparations of antimony, the only ones retained in the 
present pharmacopoeia and all derived from the sesqui-sulphuret, 
are, the oxy- sulphur et, the potassio-tartrate, and the antimonial 
(or James’s) powder. 
OF THE OXY-SULPHURET OF ANTIMONY, the pre- 
cipitated sulphuret of the former pharmacopoeia, a preparation that 
has superseded in use the old favourite, kermes mineral, which is 
a hydro-sulphuret, I cannot say much about as a medicine. Indeed, 
I never exhibited it until pressed to do so by a gentleman — an 
amateur veterinarian — to whose solicitations I found myself com- 
pelled to submit. He presented me with a recipe for what he 
called condition balls, consisting of camphor, guaiacum, sulphur, 
and the oxy-sulphuret of antimony, which he assured me — 
and his assurances were of a nature that admitted of no sort of 
dispute — were most invaluable in their efficacy in promoting and 
sustaining horses’ condition. And so I have given it, or rather seen 
it given, now for some years, but with what effect, the dose of the 
antimony being little more than a scruple, I am as much at a loss 
as ever I was to determine. 
THE POTASSIO-TARTRATE OF ANTIMONY— the eme- 
tic tartar of the old, the tartarized antimony of the late phar- 
macopoeia, is of immense importance as a medicine in the hands 
of the surgeon. By means of it he vomits, nauseates, and sweats 
