EFFECTS OF MEDICINE ON HORSES. 685 
On the 12th the eye was better ; and, as the patient, had nowise 
lost his appetite, the half-ounce ball was ordered thrice a-day. 
On the 13th, the dose was doubled; and on the 14th it was 
again doubled, making two ounces taken thrice a-day. This was 
persevered in up to the 18th ; on which day, and the day following 
(the 19th), the enormous doses of Jiv were given three times, 
making twenty-four ounces in the two days, without taking any 
perceptible effect. 
Why the former horse should have been affected by the manga- 
nese in much smaller doses, I could assign no other reason than that 
of his system being contaminated by the virus of glanders. 
Sulphur. 
SULPHUR — commonly called Brimstone — one of the earliest- 
used substances in medicine, has always enjoyed, and continues to 
enjoy, considerable reputation, both in human and veterinary 
pharmacy, and no less as an external than as an internal remedy. 
In man, it is said to loosen the belly and promote the insensible 
perspiration; indeed, so to permeate the system, as actually to 
transpire through the pores of the skin in the form of the vapour 
of hydro-sulphuric acid, tainting not only the sweat, but the urine 
and other secretions as well, and having a stimulant operation also 
upon the mucous membranes of the body upon the membrane of 
the rectum, and upon the bronchial membrane ; which accounts 
for the good sulphur has in times heretofore been said to have 
worked in pulmonary affections : indeed, so beneficial was consi- 
dered to be its power over asthmatic and similar affections, that it 
was called, by way of eminence, “ the BALSAM of the lungs. And 
since,” says Solleysell, “ sulphur is the balsam of the lungs, the 
tincture must certainly be a very effectual remedy in this case.” 
For the making of which valuable “ tincture ” Solleysell gives 
very full and particular directions ; adding, that if such gentlemen 
as may “complain of the tediousness of the preparation can find 
a remedy to cure their horses with less trouble,” he “ promises 
them not to be offended at the happiness of their invention*.” 
SUBLIMED Sulphur was administered by my father, in con- 
junction with Professor Coleman, to three horses at the same time, 
with a view of ascertaining its medicinal properties, in ounce 
doses, for four days, without any visible alteration in either of 
them. During the four following days their doses were doubled, 
and yet no effect produced. For the five successive days each 
horse took four ounces daily, and still no effect — not even a lax- 
* The Compleat Horseman, Part II, page 191. Hope’s Translation, 
2d edit. 
