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the sands the horse had gone a little stiff with that leg, and 
now on touching the part he winced. 
We afterwards made inquiry of the gentleman to whom the 
horse had belonged, the French Consul, and ascertained that 
some months ago the horse was wounded in that place by a wild 
boar, and as he was at that time en route from Tangiers to 
Mogadore, the wound was not perfectly healed, as he had no 
time to rest him. So you see, the old man was right in his 
diagnosis, and knew, i suppose, something about horse- 
flesh, as he had certainly never seen the animal before. 
His remedy was to f fire 3 him ; but that was not done. 
This firing seems to be a very general remedy, and except a 
dose of rancid butter as a purge, they seem to have few medi- 
cines. They give the seed of wormwood as a specific for worms, 
and, as far as I can understand, seldom or ever bleed their 
horses. At this I am surprised, as they often bleed them- 
selves, or are bled, and also apply the firing iron to their 
own persons. Indeed, it seems to be quite as common a 
thing to fire a man’s leg as that of a horse, and I have seen 
men with the marks of the firing iron on their faces. 
“ Horses are much valued here, and the Sheik of a dis- 
trict, about twenty miles from Mogadore, whom I visited, 
showed me one of which he was very proud, though it looked 
rather thin ; but this I did not wonder at, when he explained 
that a few days before he had ridden it all the way from the 
city of Morocco, more than 100 miles, without stopping on 
the road to feed it.” 
SALT MILK. 
The attention of the medical profession has recently been 
directed to the circumstance that the milk of some nursing 
females contains such an appreciable quantity of salt as to 
be cognizable to the taste. In the Union Medicate , “ M. 
Treves relates the case of a lady who had been hitherto 
unable to suckle her children, but determined to try anew 
with her next. As there was no perceptible obstacle the 
child was put to the breast, but always showed the greatest 
repugnance to sucking. Persevering in the attempts for a 
few weeks, the child was found to waste away. On exa- 
mination the milk offered no peculiar appearance, but on 
tasting it, it was found intensely salt, like brine. A nurse 
was procured, and the child soon rallied .” — Medical Times . 
[We quote this case chiefly for the purpose of relating a 
similar instance as occurring in the cow. A few weeks since. 
