512 ROYAL AND CENTRAL SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURE. 
The inspector was inflexible, and, after a six weeks’ sojourn at 
Bareges, M. Pepin received an order to rejoin his regiment. 
A manuscript, numbered 14, and the name of the author of 
which is enclosed in a sealed envelope, is entitled, “ On the me- 
dicinal Use of the Mineral Waters of Bourbonne les Bains on 
Horses, and the Advantages with which the Establishment of a 
Veterinary Infirmary there would be attended.” 
M. Mariot, veterinary surgeon to the third regiment of cuiras- 
siers, is the author of this paper. 
The author commences by recounting the researches which he 
made in order to become thoroughly acquainted with the medi- 
cinal properties of these springs, and to learn if they had ever 
been made use of in the treatment of the diseases of animals. He 
found but little information on this point, either in the ancient or 
modern works published on the subject; but when he came to 
the information derived from private individuals, he was more 
successful. M. Bezes, who was apothecary-major to the military 
hospital for thirty years, told him, that a horse dealer had specu- 
lated for a long time in lame horses, which he cured by pumping 
upon them ; and also in glandered horses, thirty of which he pro- 
fessed to have cured by means of these mineral waters. 
He then proceeds to relate four cases, which tend to prove the 
efficacy of these waters in the treatment of sundry diseases of 
the horse. The subject of the first of these is a mare that had 
been declared to be incurably glandered by several veterinary 
surgeons, and was condemned to be destroyed. The author ob- 
tains a reprieve— -the animal is given over to his care, and sub- 
mitted to the action of the mineral waters, used as drinks, injec- 
tions up the nostrils, vapour and shower-baths. The lacrymal 
sinus, in which a purulent deposit exists, was trepanned, and at 
the end of forty days the animal, after undergoing two strict ex- 
aminations — the one judicatory, the other administrative — was 
declared to be perfectly cured, and delivered over to its owner. 
The second case relates to a stallion, that had been con- 
demned by the veterinary surgeon of the district, as well as by 
the author himself, as glandered, and ordered to be destroyed. 
This animal had been treated during eleven months for supposed 
chronic nasal catarrh. It belonged to government, and the order 
for destroying it was not given for nearly two months after the 
animal had been condemned. Advantage was taken of this de- 
lay, and the animal submitted to a similar course of treatment to 
that already described in the first case. When the order did ar- 
rive, a reprieve was obtained, and on the fifty-fifth day the stal- 
lion was declared to be perfectly cured, and the order for its 
death was revoked. The animal was afterwards made use of as a 
stallion. 
