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ative operation. One of the horses, while taking the sulphur, 
passed a number of long white worms ( lumbrici , probably): how 
far the sulphur might have promoted their discharge, my father, 
from this single case, could offer no opinion. 
Jf horses can take four ounces of the flowers of sulphur a-day 
without effect, the quantity we are in the habit in our practice 
of giving, one would think, cannot do much good nor any harm. 
My own formula for diuretic mass is a compound of sulphur and 
common turpentine : I have never, however, attributed much if 
any virtue to the former ingredient, but rather regarded it simply as 
a vehicle for the latter ; and the two amalgamate very well. 
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Quid sit pulchruin, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non.— IIor. 
“ Let the galled jade not wince.” 
New-Invented Hames, by Mr. Bencraft. 
SADDLES and bridles, and harness apparel, are things the public 
in general expect veterinary surgeons to be able to give sound and 
scientific opinions on : and perhaps there is nothing unreasonable in 
such an expectation — veterinary practitioners riding and driving 
about as much as most persons, and possessing that knowledge of 
animal structure and economy that ought to make them capable of 
judging of the fitting, and setting, and working of such like furni- 
ture and trappings, better than men who are mere horsemen are 
likely to be able to do. 
When first these “ newly-invented hames ” were mentioned to 
us, we must confess, in our mind’s eye, we saw little or nothing to 
induce us to make any further inquiry concerning them : trial of 
them, however — that stern reprover of theory — has convinced us 
they do possess advantages, and of no very mean account, over 
the old hames. The hames, as everybody knows, consist of two 
metallic curved bars which encircle the harness-collar, linked toge- 
gether at bottom by a chain, and at top by a strap. These bars 
being inflexible, it appeared to us that it mattered little or nothing 
whether the draft of the trace came but from a single one, or 
from many points, the operation of the pull necessarily being upon 
the entire shaft of the hames; when, however, we came to see 
