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this pleasant treatment he was leaving Bourdeaux, on the road 
to Spain ; and, for aught I know to the contrary, the discipline 
might have been kept up half the way to the Pyrenees.” 
( Events of a Military Life , by W. Henry , Esq.) 
Caution to Farmers. 
A very heavy misfortune occurred to a farmer in the neigh- 
bourhood of Kendal, last week. He had had occasion to re- 
move a considerable number of young cattle from a pasture they 
had been in for some time to another at a distance, and before 
driving them out of the field he administered a quantity of rock 
salt, mixed with water, to each ; a precaution which is usually 
taken when cattle are removed to a different pasture, in order 
that they may be less liable to suffer from any epidemic which 
may happen to prevail in the neighbourhood. The cattle were 
then driven into a brook, where they were allowed to drink their 
fill. The effects of the farmer’s treatment now became apparent. 
He had given to each animal about two pounds of salt — too much 
by half. This had necessarily made them very thirsty, and the 
unlimited quantity of water they were allowed to drink caused 
one or two to drop down dead immediately, whilst yet in the 
brook ; four others expired soon after, and another in a few days, 
making the total loss amount to seven head. There is not the 
least doubt but the whole of them were killed by the incautious 
use of the salt, and the excessive quantity of it. 
Acute Glanders in the Human Subject. 
Mr. Hamerton, surgeon to the Castle-town Dispensary, has 
placed upon record three cases of acute glanders in the human 
subject, all running the same course, and terminating fatally, and 
all traceable to the same cause, i. e. contagion from a diseased 
horse. The symptoms in each case were very similar. The 
disease commenced by the invasion of febrile symptoms of a low 
type, which were followed by an attack, in one of the limbs, 
of an inflammation resembling erysipelas phlegmonodes, but of a 
d arker character, and presenting the peculiar feeling earlier ; similar 
appearances soon presented themselves elsewhere in the system ; 
sphacelus occurred, together with the formation of gangrenous 
pustules— the disease next shewed itself in the nose and throat, 
with an ichorous discharge. General symptoms of strongly- 
marked typhus appeared, and the patient died, after having been 
a prey to the most intense suffering. 
