EPIDEMIC AMONG HOUSES. G(35 
half supplied with good practitioners. More than half of the 
work is done by quacks. 
I have just one thing more to say. Learn to handle your pa- 
tients. It is good to be expert at all operations, but it is essen- 
tial to your success that you be able to perform those well which 
everybody can perform. Every groom will judge of your skill 
by the mode in which you go about a horse, the manner in 
which you handle, bleed, or ball him. You may bungle neuro- 
tomy, and escape discovery ; but if you are awkward in lifting a 
horse’s foot, in bleeding or balling him, no skill will command 
confidence. You must learn to do every thing that the groom, 
cowherd, or gamekeeper can do. If you do them better, you 
will likely get more praise than you deserve. Nothing will give 
you stable dexterity sooner than the labour of cleaning and 
shoeing horses. You are not to say that you do not like such 
mean employments. Men who mean to get on in the world must 
do much that is not agreeable. Business now-a-days is not 
amusement. If you can acquire mechanical dexterity by other 
means, do so : but remember that it must be acquired, if you 
would practise without suspicion of your professional skill, and 
without danger to your limbs. Bleed and ball as often as you 
can. Pick up the feet, examine the horse all over. Look at 
his mouth, eyes, nostrils, and fed every part about him. 
ON AN ANOMALOUS EPIDEMIC WHICH APPEARED 
AMONG THE HORSES OF THE TENTH ROYAL 
HUSSARS. 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian ” 
York Barracks, 10th Nov. 1836. 
Gentlemen, — If you consider the following essay worthy of a 
place in your valuable Journal, it is at your service. It is 
my intention in the present paper to give a general sketch of the 
disease as it appeared ; and in succeeding numbers to illustrate 
the subject more forcibly, by cases from practice. 
I am, Gentlemen, 
Your most obedient servant, 
J. W. Gloag, 
V. a S'. Tenth Royal Hussars . 
The Tenth Royal Hussars marched into Glasgow Barracks 
in April 1835, and there was very little sickness and no death 
among the horses until the end of December in the same year, 
