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ON THE USE OF ANTIMONY, &C. 
antimony and calomel were repeated a second and a third time 
before the bowels were got into a good state. I have lost very 
few cases since I have adopted this course of treatment. The 
regimen was of the most nutritious kind, but was never given cold 
or in a raw state. 
ON THE USE OF ANTIMONY. 
By the same . 
On perusing the paper by Mr. Percivall on the compounds of 
antimony, in the same month’s VETERINARIAN, and finding it to 
be stated therein that the application of it externally in the horse 
has been attended with little or no benefit, I beg to say that I have 
seen it used in the form of ointment in diseases of the eyes with 
great benefit in numerous cases, and particularly in cases of opales- 
cence of the cornea, that which we term specific ophthalmia, and 
which at first, after its application, causes a great degree of tume- 
faction of the eyelids, but which after a short time subsides, and 
the lids resume their former state, and by that time the opalescence 
entirely disappears. 
Wishing The VETERINARIAN still to perform what its design 
has ever been — the diffusion of true and right principles, 
I remain, your’s truly. 
[Mr. Percivall is gratified to hear that Mr. Green has found in 
antimony so serviceable a remedy for so untractable a disease. 
He would feel obliged to Mr. G. if he would, through the 
medium of The Veterinarian, kindly give some account of 
his cases.] 
ON CRAMP IN THE TONGUE IN CATTLE. 
By Herr EberhAARDT, V.S . , Kurhessen. 
This complaint is peculiar to the neighbourhood of Eschwege, 
Kreuzburg, Sontra, and Kurhessen, and is rarely if ever met with else- 
where ; but the causes from which it arises, and the reason of its ap- 
pearance in these places, I cannot pretend to unfold. I have never yet 
had the opportunity of seeing an animal labouring under its attacks, 
but have taken every occasion that presented itself of questioning 
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