464 ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE CUTANEOUS SECRETIONS. 
Secondly. — Horses will be bought at an age when judgment 
can better decide their fitness, their external conformation more 
developed, their internal structure and soundness, together with 
action, more leisurely considered ; thus escaping a transitory exa- 
mination, so productive of ulterior failures, such as result from the 
hurry and disturbance of a fair. 
Thirdly. — Regimental nurseries for horses will be broken up, 
and one will supply the whole. 
Fourthly. — A saving to the public in the purchase of £2646 
per annum. 
Fifthly. — Efficiency will be augmented equal to £18,003 per 
annum. 
Sixthly. — A depot covering its own expenses. 
Seventhly. — A class of men of doubtful efficiency will become 
most useful at this depot. 
Eighthly. — That superiority which once belonged to the British 
cavalry, and is fast impairing, will again be maintained ; as scarcely 
a doubt can arise that both the Government and breeders will be 
stimulated to some measures advantageous to both : the former, 
perhaps, by supplying stallions to serve the mares of the latter, 
having a preference of the produce ; and the latter, with this pro- 
vision, meeting the wants of cavalry at remunerative prices. 
British Army Despatch , \lth May , 1850. 
Foreign Extracts. 
The Influence of the Cutaneous Secretions on the 
Integrity of the General Functions of the Organism. 
By M. H. Bouley, 
Professor of Clinique at the Veterinary College . Alfort. 
[Continued from page 356.] 
We had proof in a former article of the rapid and energetic 
influence of plasters accurately applied to the entire surface of the 
skin trimmed of its pilous clothing. A few hours after the 
stopping up of its pores by layers of impermeable matter, signs of 
evident disorder, though at first ill characterized, presented them- 
selves in the organic functions. First, the animal grew dull, 
depressed, listless to things in general passing around him, which 
at another time excited him; impressible only by agents coming in 
immediate contact with the skin, whose sensibility becomes ex- 
alted by the coating of plaster it has received. The respiration 
