EFFECTS OF MEDICINE ON HORSES. 
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When a mad ox or bull menaces the public peace, a speedy 
method of destroying his power of doing harm is to cut the bi- 
femoro calcaneum tendon. 
Sheep are neither dangerous nor mischievous animals. It is easy 
both to catch them and to conduct them. They are usually stopped 
by means of a crook or by taking them by the point of the shoulder 
and raising them, holding the anterior part between their legs in 
an almost perpendicular line. At other times the shepherd is con- 
tent to fix them by putting their necks between his knees, and let- 
ting the animal remain on his four feet while he examines or does 
any thing to him. 
Some rams who have horns occasionally attack and wound peo- 
ple. Correct them by means of a dog. If that does not succeed, 
the horns may be sawn — they may be blinded — and, as a last re- 
source, have recourse to castration. 
EFFECTS OF MEDICINE ON HORSES. 
By Mr. Wm. Percivall. 
Ammonia. 
AMMONIA appears to be made more use of in veterinary medicine 
as an external than as an internal remedy. The liquor or aqua 
ammonice, from its known property of forming a kind of soap in 
combination with oil or fat, is found useful in our hands, as well as 
in surgeons’, as a stimulant and rubefacient. I once, and but once, 
administered it to a horse inwardly. 
May 15th, 1813. — A bay horse, eight years old, in good con- 
dition, though affected with sub-acute glanders, took an ounce of 
the liquor in a pint of water ; and the same dose was repeated in 
the evening. 
16^A. — The same doses were repeated. 
\lth . — The drench has caused excoriation underneath the 
tongue, and the horse, apparently on that account, refuses his food. 
Wash the excoriated part with a solution of alum, and give the 
drenches again. 
18^A. — The mouth is rendered too sore to continue the drenches. 
Let him take an ounce of the hydrochlorate of ammonia, in ball, 
twice a-day, and dress his mouth as before. 
19 th . — His appetite has improved. Give two ounces of the 
hydrochlorate morning and evening. 
20 th and 21s£. — Balls continued twice a-day. 
