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REVIEW— FIELD’S VETERINARY RECORDS. 
acknowledged by the Editor, “ still more imperfect” than the 
former, and “ great indulgence is craved for them” on that ac- 
count, still do they contain some practical remarks which will 
prove of service to future cultivators of the same field of scientific 
investigation. 
We now come to the “Cases;” and, altogether, a more 
interesting collection we have not for many a day perused. 
There are among them such as are singular, strange, and extra- 
ordinary in their character — instructive and practically useful ; 
nay, even entertaining : and, generally speaking, they bear upon 
them the impress of the hand of a careful and diligent registry, 
altogether constituting a valuable legacy, for which we feel no 
doubt, one day or other, the Editor will, as he deserves, receive 
the thanks of the profession. In the mean time, since the pre- 
sent assemblage constitutes but “ a tithe” of what the lamented 
author left behind him, our advice to the Editor is, that he be- 
take himself with all convenient speed to revising the remaining 
nine-tenths of the cases, with a view of rescuing from oblivion, 
through publication, such of them as bear upon them any such 
stamp as those exhibit which he has already published. We shall 
conclude with transcribing a. few cases, selected in confirmation of 
what we have stated in reference to their diversified character. 
We have, in the course of our practice, seen numbers of horses 
dressed with infusions and decoctions of tobacco, on account of 
mangy or other cutaneous affections, but we never witnessed any 
such effect as is detailed in the annexed case : — 
“Dec. 30 th, 1817- — A liorse belonging to Colonel , at Hall’s stables 
in Grosvenor-place, was dressed over with tobacco-water in order to cure 
the mange ; this was about nine o’clock in the morning, and at half-past 
twelve a man came to say the horse was extremely ill. When I went to the 
stables I found him breathing very laboriously, sighing, and shivering; there 
was no pulse to be felt, at least the pulsations were not distinguishable. I 
ordered the tobacco-water to be washed off' with warm water and scrapers ; I 
desired four drachms of purging paste to be given immediately, with the fol- 
lowing drink 
R Sp. seth. nit Jss 
Tine, rhei 
zingiberis ^ss 
Aquiae Oj. Mis. 
A similar drink to be repeated in three hours if he was not better; but, if 
much improved, not till the evening. 
“The horse was seen again in the evening, when his pulse was very irregu- 
lar : there was no shivering nor blowing ; he fed well ; and the next morn- 
ing he was perfectly recovered.” 
The next case we have selected is of a strange description : 
we do not know that the author’s solution of it will bear strict 
pathological scrutiny. 
“ Dec. Ydth, 1836. — A black cart gelding, belong to Messrs. , went, 
