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EFFECTS OF EMETIC TARTAR. 
These agglomerations were formed of hair of the same kind and 
colour as that of the calf, and united by means of a thick mucus. 
All these hairs seemed to take their departure and to radiate 
towards the circumference, in a manner as regular as if a brush had 
been used to give them this direction. 
I have thought that these balls might be the produce of a kind 
of moulting which the calf had undergone during its extraordinary 
sojourn in the uterine cavity. 
Mem. de la Soc. Vet. du Calvad. 1837. 
Pharmacological Experiments. 
By MM. Renault and Bouley. 
EMETIC TARTAR. 
We have tried large doses of tartarized antimony on the horse. 
Human pathologists have long spoken of its valuable effects on the 
pulmonary tissue of the human being, and physiologists have de- 
scribed its power to produce inflammation in the lungs in the 
dog when injected into the circulatory vessels. We have been 
induced by this to try its effect on the horse. 
Two horses, with apparently sound lungs, were taken, and a 
dose of four ounces of emetic tartar was given to each, on two 
successive mornings when fasting. They both died on the third 
day. On examination after death, exceedingly acute inflammation 
of the lungs and pleurae was recognized. The whole mucous sur- 
face of the small intestine and of the large curvatures of the colon 
were filled with a very peculiar globular eruption. 
In other horses the emetic was given on eight successive days, 
in quantities successively increased until it reached the enormous 
dose of more than three pounds. We recognized after death the 
same irregular surface of the mucous membranes of the alimentary 
canal, and the pulmonary membranes were engorged with black 
blood ; but there appeared few traces of actual inflammation ; 
and it would rather have been thought that the animals had died in 
consequence of some charbonneux disease. 
The effects of this medicament varied considerably, according as 
the digestive tube was full or empty, and the nature of the matter 
which it contained. If the animal had been kept fasting, or had 
been allowed only farinaceous food, the tartarized antimony would 
produce fatal inflammation of the intestinal canal, in doses of two 
ounces only; but when they had been fed on oats or hajq double 
the quantity or more was requisite to cause death. The influence 
of this drug on the tannin matter which this aliment contained will 
sufficiently explain the phenomena. 
Bee. de Med. Vet. Sep. 1840. 
