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for a few days to prevent them from sticking together. The 
medicine is now hermetically enclosed in the gum, and will 
preserve its virtues for months ; perhaps for years. 
How safe is its administration ! The sixth attenuation 
contains in one grain but one millionth of a grain of the 
glanderine, and this millionth is extended through a million 
fold its own space. My habit is to dissolve one of these 
pilules in half a tumblerful of water ; and to direct a tea- 
spoonful to be taken every four or every six hours. Thus 
again the dilution and extension are multiplied twenty-fold. 
Or in round numbers, each teaspoonful contains the twenty 
millionth of a grain, one thousand million times extended. 
The tumbler ought to be kept in a cool place, because the 
water easily ferments in warm weather. 
So much for dilution of virus : now for experience of 
safety. I have on many occasions applied the contents of 
the tumbler to raw surfaces ; have thrown it up the nose in 
ozaena ; and given it in aphthae and buccal ulcerations ; and 
with only beneficial results. 
Glanderine is not a pleasant idea: but neither is vaccine : 
the healing use has however another idea concealed within 
it ; and with this use alone the name of glanderine will soon 
be associated. 
ON THE EXISTENCE OF OXALATE OF LIME IN 
THE URINE OF THE HORSE, AND B RIGHT'S 
DISEASE OF THE KIDNEY. 
By J. Western, M.R.C.V.S., Horse Artillery, Bangalore. 
In the c Veterinarian* for November 1856, which has only 
reached me within the last few days, there is a paper by Mr: 
John Gamgee, M.R.C.Y.S., Professor of Anatomy and Phy- 
siology in the Edinburgh Veterinary College. 
In this paper the names, opinions, or publications of no 
less than sixteen foreign professional gentlemen are alluded 
to, and quoted as authorities to be depended upon by his 
class; for in the first paragraph Mr. Gamgee says , “A journal 
appears quarterly in Stuttgart, often quoted by us, called 
The Repertory of Veterinary Science ; it is now in its seventeenth 
year, and Professor Hering, with whom it originated, is still 
its editor. Its most remarkable feature is the vast and 
complete collection of all the original matter contained in the 
contemporary veterinary periodicals that are issued in six 
