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ance in the muscles lying immediately contiguous, especially at 
the end or parts nearest to the insertion ; but the other end or 
origin of the muscle was not equally affected. 
THE EFFECT OF TARTARIZED ANTIMONY AS A 
VESICATORY. 
By Mr. Gloag, 10 th Hussars. 
Are you aware of the effects of tartarized antimony on the 
horse’s skin ? In the College, I believe, that neither externally 
nor internally is it supposed to have any power. In affection of 
the skin, as mange, &c. tartarized antimony, prepared with lard, 
and well rubbed in and repeated during the day, has certainly a 
dreadful effect : no caustic can be worse. Tartarized antimony, 
prepared with lard, and well rubbed on a healthy surface, may 
not act the first day , but if repeated on the second, vesicles rise 
immediately, and ulcers may form from those vesicles : it seems 
always to attack the true skin. The effect seems to depend on 
the second rubbing, from the neglect of which, no doubt, the 
experiment has failed. As an assistant in the formation of a 
blister, I think it very useful, in the proportion of one part of the 
tartarized antimony to three parts of the fly. 
ENORMOUS ENLARGEMENT OF THE LIVER AND 
SPLEEN IN A MARE. 
By Mr. J. Tait, of Portsoy. 
I beg to send you a case from my friend, Mr. Smith Huntley, 
which I hope you will find worth insertion, as the spleen and 
pancreas were enlarged to an enormous extent. 
In the month of February last, I was called to a mare, the 
property of Mr. James Christy, surgeon, in this town, which 
had been unwell for some time previous. Being from home at 
the time, the blacksmith had bled her and given her a “ drink.” 
On my arrival I found her dead. 
Post-mortem examination . — On opening the abdomen, the 
bowels were highly inflamed ; and on examining the spleen, 
I found it considerably enlarged, weighing upwards of fifty 
pounds, and in a complete state of scirrhus. On exploring 
