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urine. On the following morning all the effects of the medicine 
had disappeared. 
I am sorry I cannot entirely agree with Mr. Cupiss in the in- 
ferences which he seems to draw from his experiments as to the 
value of this medicament. I believe it to be one advantageously 
employed as a febrifuge and diuretic. As to the first, I should 
give it in the form of ball, so that it might undergo solution in 
the stomach and alimentary canal ; the latter I should give in 
solution, that it might be quickly taken up and conveyed to the 
renal glands. The quantity should not exceed an ounce in the 
day, and half of this would be preferred by me. That corre- 
sponding increased action does not take place with augmentation 
of the dose is not surprising, it being well known, that, if glandu- 
lar structures are slightly inflamed, their function is increased ; 
but if highly so, they cease to secrete. 
Is Mr. Cupiss right in attributing spasmodic constriction of 
the neck of the bladder to this agent ? Did not that which took 
place arise rather from an over-distention of the viscus, so that it 
was unable to contract upon its contents ? 
Trusting that these little differences in views will be accepted 
as meant, I am, &c. 
NEUROTOMY. 
By Mr. Charles Morris, Bideford, Devon. 
August 28th, 1835. — I was requested by Mr. John Wills, of 
Bridford, to see a mare of his that was lame. She had previously 
been seen by many farriers in the neighbourhood, all of whom 
had pronounced her lame in her shoulder, and had recommended 
the owner to turn her out to grass “ to run herself sound, ” which 
the owner had actually done for two years, the mare remaining, 
of course, as lame as ever. The first year this mare had a foal, 
the last year none ; owing, I have no doubt, to the excessive irri- 
tation that was caused by the lameness, which increased per- 
ceptibly during every month. I proceeded to the field she was 
in, and having caught her examined her, and found her lame in 
the coffin-joint of the off fore leg ; and so acute was the lame- 
ness, that, on taking up the near fore leg, she immediately fell 
to the ground. The foot was but very little contracted, and not 
much smaller than the near fore foot. I was informed by the 
owner that he would not be at any great expense about her, so 
that I at once recommended her to be nerved, to which he rea- 
dily assented ; and, having taken her to the stable, I abstract- 
ed from the foot between three and four quarts of blood, and 
