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which sore throat is, in general, a prominent symptom. In young 
horses strangles is likely to supervene. What is to be appre- 
hended, however, is the supervention of bronchitis or pleurisy, run- 
ning into effusion of water and lymph, pneumonia, and in the end, 
after lingering perhaps some weeks, phthisis. 
Hitherto we have withheld the phleame ; and we feel it our duty 
to say, we have as yet had no cause to regret saving the patient’s 
blood. Our treatment has consisted in clothing the body and band- 
aging the legs, and otherwise restoring warmth to his superficial 
and extreme parts, and, on the subsidence of the shivering and 
blowing, exhibiting a nauseating aperient dose of cathartic mass, 
regulating the action of that by enemata if too little, by water-gruel 
or linseed tea, &c. if too great. This we follow up by fever medi- 
cine, combining camphor, antimony, and nitre. What is of very 
great consequence in the treatment is, the paying all possible at- 
tention to the practice of counter -irritation. The turpentine and 
ammonia liniment may be freely used to the throat, breast, and 
sides, in the first instance ; subsequently, in cases requiring them, 
blisters and rowels and setons. Causing the patient to inhale, at 
frequent intervals in the day, the vapour of hot water, proves an 
excellent soother of the inflamed and irritable air- passages, at the 
same time that it promotes or elicits discharge from them. 
REVIEW. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — Hon. 
The Horse in Health and Disease ; or, Suggestions on his Natural 
and General History, Varieties, Conformation, Paces, Action, 
Age , Soundness, Stabling, Condition, Training, and Shoeing : 
with a Digest of Veterinary Practice. By JAMES H. WINTER, 
M.R.C.V.S., and of the Association Litteraire d’Egypte ; late 
Veterinary Surgeon to Mehemet Ali and Ibrahim Pasha. 8vo, 
pp. 376. Longman, 1846. 
The announcement of a work from the pen of a gentleman, “ late 
Veterinary Surgeon to Mehemet Ali and Ibrahim Pasha,” had 
naturally filled our mind with pleasurable anticipations about 
