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silence, and then start off howling as if pursued, and run up 
and down for hours. 
“ So it was with poor Flora, our 6 wise dog/ She lapsed 
into a lethargic condition ; and this passing off, the same 
crazy wildness took possession of her, and she died of brain 
disease ( arachnoidal effusion) in about six weeks. Generally, 
they perish with symptoms resembling lock-jaw in less than 
thirty-six hours after the first attack.” 
HORSE HEALING AND HORSE TAMING. 
Apropos of the wonders of horse taming. Dr. Doran 
revives the marvels of horse healing. He recalls the feats 
of Sieur Tunnestrich, of the Hague, who professed to heal 
instantaneously horses dangerously wounded in the head. 
In January, 1772, in the presence of the stadtholder and 
other eminent persons, a large nail was driven into the head 
of a horse; it was then drawn out by pincers, when Sieur 
Tunnestrich went up to the animal, injected a fluid into the 
wound, and in five or six minutes the horse was as lively and 
well, as if nothing unpleasant had happened to him ! The 
mystery of horse taming begins to lose a part of the dim 
atmosphere of scientific marvel with which it was sought at 
first to invest it. The electro-biological influences which 
were insinuated to be potent agents in the work, are pretty 
generally discredited ; and this is not to be regretted, since 
they served for a time to strengthen the hands of mesmeric 
charlatanry. The American papers speak everywhere with 
confident boldness of the use of a strap to the fore leg, and 
the like mechanical means, as being the arcana of Mr. Rarey’s 
secret ; and similar practices are described in various quar- 
ters as being successfully employed. M. Baudeloque has 
added another to the drugs which have been recommended for 
the purpose. In a communication to the Academy of Sciences 
at Paris, on the sedative effects of lobelia inflata, he declares 
that lobelia longifolia is the potent agent by which Mr. Rarey 
triumphs. Creilat Juclccus apella. 
