ADULTERATION OF FOOD,, DRUGS, ETC. 289 
puts an epidemic out of the question. The symptoms remind 
one very much of those, lately so much discussed, of strychnine. 
The absence of any visible cause of death in the dissected 
horses suggests the same idea. Every measure has been in 
the mean time taken to clear up this case, although the absence 
of the necessary means for a chymical analysis may render 
this rather difficult. — From Correspondent of the Times, Mar. 31. 
AN AMERICAN QUERY TO ENGLISH HORSE-BREEDERS. 
Assuming that the best horses for all harness service 
faster than a walk, and weight-carrying hunter chargers and 
hacks, should be short of full blood, which of the distinct 
English racers brought to America, and there crossed and 
mixed with “ blood” (with blood we are provided) would be 
most likely to produce superior <£ half-bred” animals of the 
useful classes enumerated ? In other words, what is the 
most desirable specific ingredient other than C£ blood” in the 
general lineage of the (e half-bred” horse ? 
We think that the cross of blood, on the Midland-Black, 
Clydesdale, and Suffolk- Punch breeds, would be too violent 
and coarse ; and that sufficient size could not be got through 
the ponies and cobs. The English racers we are inclined to 
prefer for mixing with blood, are either the Cleveland-Bay , 
by which we understand the coaching-horse of Yorkshire, or 
the Trotting-Roadster of Suffolk, Norfolk, and Yorkshire. We 
fear that the roadster may be rather cob-like, and not gentle- 
manly enough. But we await information from our trans- 
atlantic cousins — 
Many American Breeders. 
To the Editors of the Veterinarian. 
Extracts from British and Foreign Journals. 
THE ADULTERATION OE EOOD, DRUGS, &c. 
We promised in a previous number to give a conden- 
sation of the evidence adduced before the Committee of the 
House of Commons on this important subject, whenever they 
resumed their labours. We, however, find the thing has 
been so well done by the editor of the Pharmaceutical Journal , 
that we hesitate not to transfer it entire to our pages. 
