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up in a stall, he was sure to fall backwards, seemingly uncon- 
scious ; and when loose in a box, he was always circling to the 
left. He never lay down — the head was always poked out— the 
eyes staring, and with a stupid expression of the countenance. 
When loose in the barrack yard, where he was usually turned every 
night to graze, he was almost constantly circling to the left : he 
would begin in a large circle, perhaps at a walk or trot, and 
increase his pace, gradually making the circle smaller, until he 
would spin round and round, and eventually fall. 
The usual remedies, such as depletion, purging, blistering, 
&c. were tried with no effect — the animal seemed neither to 
get better nor worse, and continued in this state for two 
months. I then tried the tartar emetic, and gave four drachms 
daily for six days, and at the same time blistered the poll. 
During the administration of the antimony, the pulse daily 
became weaker, and the animal’s strength and vital powers 
gradually failed him. On the sixth day, the pulse was imper- 
ceptible — the legs and ears were deathy cold — and the membranes 
of the mouth, nose, and eyes nearly white. The strength was 
so far gone, that the least push would have thrown him down; 
and I expected that he would have died. On the discontinu- 
ance of the medicine, the strength very gradually returned, the 
disease of the brain seemed to be considerablv abated, and from 
that time he began to recover. In September he was sold as 
an aged horse ; but I have since heard that he is doing well. 
I am in the habit of using tartarized antimony in combination 
with tar, nitre, &c. for recent coughs, with the best effect ; and 
1 certainly consider it as a useful article in the veterinary phar- 
macopoeia. On the earliest opportunity, it is my intention to 
institute a course of experiments on its medical power when 
used both externally and internally. The result I will communi- 
cate to the editor of The Veterinarian. 
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A Letter from 
i ^ 
I have for the last two or three years been experimenting on 
crossing the Cheviot sheep of this country with the Russian breed 
of sheep ; and the result has been, that I have produced an ani- 
mal of a large size and rapid growth, but which is subject to a dis- 
ease uncommon to the breeds of sheep in this country. The lambs, 
when about live or six weeks old, are frequently affected with 
paralysis in the hind legs, from which I have never been able to 
