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this country. I also form a liniment with it for Bursauttee 
ulcers, as follows, although there is little hope of curing this 
disease during the rainy season : Simmer six ounces of the 
gum-resin in a quart of linseed oil for some time, and when 
cold, add two ounces of the oil of turpentine. This I find 
an excellent digestive for all ordinary purposes.” 
[The specimen received exists in small irregularly-shaped 
masses, which in the centre are semi-opaque, and their outer 
surface is translucent ; the powder is greenish-yellow ; the 
smell and taste peculiarly offensive and abiding, resembling 
the foeted gums. It is apparently commixed with accidental 
impurities, is inflammable, and partially soluble in rectified 
spirit, to which it imparts both its colour and odour.] 
IODIDE OF AMMONIUM. 
Mr.Percival Smale,V.S., Leamington, adverting to our 
notice of the above compound, informs us that he has been 
in the habit of employing for some time past, and with 
marked advantage, the following liniment in cases of incipient 
exostoses : 
5t> Iodinii, ; 
Potass, lodid., ^ij ; 
Liquor. Ammon., f^iv ; 
Glycerini, f^iv. Misce. 
He also says that in cases of suspected ulceration of the 
synovial membrane of the hock-joint he has resorted to it 
with success, adding a drachm of the extract of belladonna 
to every ounce of the liniment, and enjoining perfect rest to 
the animal. 
i SUPERSTITION. 
The incident referred to by Mr. Stockley, in his retiring 
speech, as president of the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons, recorded in our last number, of one of the 
older veterinary surgeons, dressing the nail w hich had been 
the cause of an injury, instead of the wound in the foot it- 
self, has been much commented upon, and its truth doubted 
from its absurdity. It has, how i * * * * * 7 ever, its antecedents in very 
