6S4 CARBON SUGGESTED AS A REMEDY F.vR MURRAIN, &c. 
letter, I think it unnecessary to add them here : I will leave it to 
you, Messrs. Editors, to extract them, or such portion of them, as 
you may deem advisable or requisite. There are, however, a few 
remarks which it may be advisable for me to make with respect to 
the variation in the mode of administering the gas. In the first 
place, if a horn is used, it should be open at both ends, and the 
mixture of acid and soda may then be given separately, the solu- 
tion of soda being poured into the horn first, if, however, a 
bladder with a long pipe were employed, the solutions might then 
be mixed together, in the manner pointed out for the administration 
of the gas by the anus, in dysenteric attacks, at page 29 of my 
work. In the next place, as the lungs are the organs chiefly at- 
tacked, there would be little benefit derived from the administra- 
tion of carbon in its ordinary form, that of charcoal, for the 
effect of this remedy is chiefly confined to the primes vies. Not 
so, however, to another form of carbon — naphtha — which I have no 
doubt would be found very beneficial, and possibly the best form 
for administering the remedy in, as it appears to be rapidly absorbed 
into the circulating mass, and produces a sensible effect on the 
whole of the secreting surfaces, while also we have some accounts 
of its favourable effects in similar affections in man. For the same 
reason we might resort to common oil, which contains a large pro- 
portion of carbon ; as, notwithstanding that I am opposed to the 
administration of this form of carbon in cholera, on account of its 
emetic and purgative effect, the case is altered when no irritability 
and relaxation exist in the abdominal organs, and when, on the con- 
trary, we are obliged to resort to aperients, as well as other remedies. 
I would also wish to add, that a remedy like this must be had 
recourse to at the commencement of the attack, and before disor- 
ganization has taken place in the lungs or other textures. After 
this, a different treatment will be required to remedy the effects 
that have ensued from the injurious operation of an extraneous 
substance in the system ; the preceding agents being only intended 
to remove the cause, or, in other words, neutralize the poison. 
In conclusion, I will only add, that, as my own avocations lead 
me into other pursuits — analogous, it is true, but still, to a certain 
extent, different — and as my opportunities in London will neces- 
sarily be limited, I trust that those of your readers who may be 
induced to adopt the treatment now proposed will make the result 
public for the benefit and satisfaction of others. I cannot, how- 
ever, close this letter without stating my conviction that this treat- 
ment, or rather this single remedy, would be not only applicable, 
but be a certain cure for two diseases hitherto found not only un- 
tractable, but almost beyond the reach of art; — I mean the glanders 
in horses and the rot in sheep. On a future occasion 1 hope to 
