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REVIEW — PRACTICAL HORSEMANSHIP. 
I regret to have lost the memoranda of the admission of the 
colts into hospital, as the state of the colt or form of disease was 
noted, whether fever, catarrh, strangles, or abscess in any other 
part, &c. 
The treatment depended entirely upon the state of the fever, 
and to prevent vital organs being affected, when the thermometer 
was upwards of 100° in the hospital stable (80° of Fahr. behind a 
refrigerator, well watered, at the doors of private dwellings), during 
the hot winds of April and May, at the cessation of which, till it 
rained in June, the heat was so insufferable that I used to wonder 
how my patients recovered. But., according to the degree of fever, 
if necessary, by bleeding, cold water affusion, nauseating doses of 
aloes in solution — alone, or combined with nitre or salt — I ma- 
naged to keep down the fever; which was, with me, the principal 
indication of cure. I should have lost more of my patients by 
death, farcy, or glanders, had 1 waited for the system ridding itself 
of morbific matter by the eruptive process; — whether it happened 
or not, the fever once subdued, I had recourse to mineral and 
vegetable tonics, and continued these after the colts were dis- 
charged from hospital till they began to thrive; otherwise the 
object of the remount depot would have been lost — that of in- 
creasing the size of cavalry horses, by feeding better than the 
native breeders and dealers*. 
1 could add a few notes in corroboration, but I have already, I 
fear, occupied too much space, so will defer it to some other time. 
Your’s obediently. 
W. Percivall, Esq., 
Editor of “ The Veterinarian.” 
REVIEW. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non.— Hon, 
Practical Horsemanship. By Harry Hiedver, Author of 
"The Pocket and the Stud ;” and “ The Stud for Practical 
Purposes and Practical Men.” London : Longman and Co., 
Paternoster- row, 1850. Small 8vo, pp. 213. 
THERE are manifestly two, if not more, kinds of horsemanship in 
practice among us in this country; — in other words, we are in the 
* This mode of remount was preferred by the cavalry, and I had reason to 
think it was equally advantageous in a political point of view, as it gave em- 
ployment to many Musselmen of higher caste than those at the remount 
depots. 
