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quantity of emetic tartar, or, indeed, of any quantity of emetic 
tartar, can be, we cannot imagine. Nitre, a small proportion of 
ginger, and sufficient liquorice, or linseed- meal powder, to form 
a mass ! would be far preferable. 
ct Alterative Dog Medicine for Distemper. — Take 
four ounces of nitre, four ounces of sulphur, and a sufficiency of 
linseed oil, to form a mass, which divide into two dozen balls. 
Give a ball twice a-day, and plenty of clean straw to lie upon.” 
If there is an error of the press, and for “ Distemper” we are to 
read “ Mange,” we will suffer this recipe to pass. It is a good 
one ; but for distemper it is only losing valuable time, and per- 
haps the only time in which the disease can be combatted with 
success. 
One prescription more: “Red Water, in Cattle. It is a 
curious coincidence, that any esculent vegetable containing the 
red principle of colour has a wonderful tendency to promote a 
speedy cure. For this purpose, crop madder with turmeric, with 
a small quantity of salt of tartar, should be administered, in con- 
junction with a brisk purgative, say(! !) two pounds of Glauber’s 
salts, or a double handful of fox-wort chopped small, with half an 
ounce of nitre, should be given once in twenty hours, until the 
natural colour of the water is reproduced.” “ Two pounds of 
Glauber’s salts every twenty hours, until the natural colour of 
the water is reproduced !” Dangerous ! murderous ! ! As for the 
“ red principle of colour,” it is too ridiculous to merit one mo- 
ment’s attention. 
So far, then, as veterinary matters are concerned, this book is 
not worth having ; and if it falls into the hands of uninstructed 
persons, it will do a great deal of harm : yet it contains the com- 
position of many articles that it is highly useful to know some- 
thing about. There is no housekeeper, confectioner, oilman, 
publican — there is scarcely a person who would not derive valu- 
able information with regard to a thousand things, of daily oc- 
currence ; and the use it would be of in these respects, and the 
pleasure it would bestow, must be set against the occasionally, 
perhaps the frequent, torture or destruction of the poor horse, or 
bullock, or dog. Y. 
