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and important divisions of the author’s labours. There is the 
same spirit of research — the same candour with regard to the 
sources whence he derives his information — the same beautifully 
clear arrangement and classical style of expression. It will do 
much to raise our profession in the estimation of the better class 
of our employers, and prepare us for that status in society to which 
we have a right to aspire, and which we are rapidly occupying. 
It is difficult to select the disease in the description of which 
the author is happiest, and best displays his characteristic method 
of treating his subject. We take, however, 
“ Profuse Staling, which is only regarded in the light of 
disease when it amounts to much more in quantity than is na- 
tural, and continues for that length of time that the well-being 
of the animal is evidently affected by it. 
“ The causes of this must in general be sought for either in the 
provender the horse is consuming, or the water he is drinking. 
Dark-coloured, highly fermented, or mow-burnt hay ; kiln-dried 
oats, or such as have been speared or become musty from lying 
long in heaps; barley that has been malted, and water having 
some mineral impregnation, are each and all of them to be viewed 
in the light of injurious agents, notwithstanding they are con- 
sumed in many cases with impunity. 
“ During the three years of occupation the British army continued in 
France, after the battle of Waterloo, Mr. Castley, V.S., 12th Lancers, had 
occur to him some well-marked cases of this description. They arose from 
the unwholesomeness of the oats served out to the cavalry, which were issued 
from stores where they had lain in such enormous heaps as, in a short time, 
not only to heat, but to become ‘ literally half-rotten.’ This at one time 
caused diabetes (insipidus?) to a ‘frightful extent.’ Mr. C. endeavoured 
to check it by giving'chalk in water. For common use, Mr. C. generally 
found the following formula satisfactory : — Take of powdered galls, alum, 
and bole, of each 3b ginger ji, and mix them in a quart of beer, or give them 
divided into two parts in balls, morning and evening. 
“ The Symptoms in ordinary cases attendant on these im- 
moderate fluxes of urine are insatiable thirst, with, unless he be 
satisfied, a refusal to feed as usual ; unhealthy appearance of the 
coat; dispiritedness; inability to bear fatigue ; loss of flesh ; de- 
bility. 
“Mr. Stewart, of Glasgow, in a paper on the subject in The 
Veterinarian for 1839, describes two kinds of this disorder; one 
with, the other without fever and bronchitis, the symptoms in the 
latter case being those of fever, and bronchitis superadded. 
He also avers that he has seen the disorder occur when no cause 
for it was discoverable in the food. 
“The quantity of u rin e voided in some of these cases is so 
great as to be quite incredible. The stall is deluged with the flow. 
