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sumed but we often find an equally great absurdity in seeing 
highly volatile ingredients, as camphor, ammonia, ether, and even 
prussic acid, ordered to be mixed in hot water or gruel, whereby 
they must be partly or entirely dissipated. 
Again, iodine is often mixed with gruel or linseed-meal, con- 
verting it into an iodide of starch, a very feeble preparation. Of 
course, volatile ingredients should be given in cold water or mix- 
tures, and iodine in cold water or chamomile or wormwood tea, 
when these are admissible, and given some time after the animal 
has had gruel or farinaceous food. The active preparations should 
also be well diluted, so as to disturb as little as possible the 
already irritable stomachs. For the same reason, I prefer small 
and repeated doses. 
In conclusion, I would state, that the painful interest still felt in 
this zymotic, as evinced by a premium having been recently 
offered for an essay on the subject, induced me to attempt this ex- 
position. The treatment advocated has been comparatively suc- 
cessful, yet it cannot be held forth as a certain cure ; and if the 
Editors see in the paper matter worthy a place in their very useful 
journal, it is humbly dedicated to their use by their 
Obedient servant, 
J. Relph. 
DEATH OF A PONY FROM A SPONGE GETTING INTO 
THE WINDPIPE. 
By Mr. W. A. Cartwright, VS., Whitchurch, Salop. 
ABOUT six o’clock in the morning of the 24th Sept. 1844, a two- 
year-old pony, belonging to Mr. George Venables, of this town, was 
fetched up home out of a field to go a journey, and was then per- 
fectly well. A little before seven he ate a bran mash, and soon 
afterwards he was seen to be unwell. He ran about the stable, 
jumped up, and fought with his fore-feet — shrieked out, and lifted 
up his head ; at other times he would draw his head and breast 
together, and shew every symptom of being choked : he also 
coughed violently, and made a shrieking noise. I was then called 
in to attend him, and, as the pony belonged to my next door 
neighbour, I was shortly there. 
Symptoms . — He had now a fit, with similar symptoms as above 
described — was in dreadful agony — running forwards, lifting up his 
legs with great force — dashed about the stable in every direction 
— and looked wild : respiration was a little increased. 
