222 EFFECTS OF MEDICINE ON HORSES. 
while the party were looking on, he broke the halter, and, turning 
suddenly round, attacked the groom with the greatest ferocity, 
trampling him down with his feet, and then, placing his knees on 
the poor man’s prostrate body, tearing his breast and arms with his 
teeth in a manner absolutely frightful. The two men who had 
accompanied the party thus attacked, finding themselves unable to 
rescue him, left the stable for the purpose of procuring some 
weapon to beat off the enraged brute, and in doing so shut the 
door, leaving him alone to carry on the unequal contest. He 
struggled violently beneath the animal, who was tearing merci- 
lessly at his flesh ; but at length succeeded in inserting his hand 
into his mouth and seizing the brute by the tongue, which, most 
fortunately, gave him sufficient command of it to prevent farther 
injury until his companions returned and released him from his 
perilous position. The poor fellow has suffered severely from the 
attack, and the consequences may, possibly, be of a very serious 
nature. We understand that the horse has before manifested a 
very dangerous disposition, and rumours are in circulation as to 
attacks having been made of a nature which, if true, should have 
led the proprietor to adopt the most cautionary measures in regard 
to him. Sufficient has been shewn, however, to prove that an 
ordinary stable is not the place for such an animal. If not de- 
stroyed, the proper receptacle for him is a menagerie, where the 
rarity of the breed from which he springs might make him an ob- 
ject of interest without risk being incurred. We believe the animal 
was purchased at the late cattle show in this city. 
Glasgow Chronicle, March 7, 1845. 
EFFECTS OF MEDICINE ON HORSES. 
By Mr. Percivall. 
The Aloe. 
( Aloe Spicata vel Capensis, Vulgaris vel Barbadensis.) 
There exists no production, either of the mineral or vegetable 
kingdom, more extensively used in veterinary medicine, neither is 
there any that, judiciously prescribed, is capable of conferring a 
greater amount of benefit in the hippiatric department, than 
the extracted and inspissated juice of the aloe plant. Were 
the veterinary surgeon by any accident deprived of aloes — his or- 
dinary and all but universal cathartic for horses — it would puzzle 
him not a little to devise a substitute for them. Almost the entire 
class of cathartic medicines in use in human medicine become 
