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more definite compounds of antimony, and consequently 
more certain ones as to their effects on the organism, being 
substituted for them. Some of those employed by the 
veterinary surgeon we have already alluded to, and there is 
another that has been long advocated by the older practi- 
tioners as a caustic, — namely, the sesqui-chloride. 
THE PURCHASE OF HORSES AT THE CAPE OF 
GOOD HOPE FOR THE ARMY IN INDIA. 
We are indebted to Mr. F. Rogers, Y.S. H.E.I.C., for a 
copy of 4 Papers relating to the purchase of remount horses 
at the Cape for the army in India/ 
In a letter that accompanied it Mr. Rogers says : 
“The blue-book I have forwarded to you contains much 
that is interesting in many points of view. Politically, I 
conceive a good horse to be the most valuable thing a nation 
can possess ; for what is an army without an efficient horse- 
artillery and cavalry? Witness our victories in India lately, 
but not defeats , for want of cavalry, and you will find that an 
efficient cavalry is the chief arm that will be required to 
tranquillise India. Infantry cannot move quick enough to 
keep up a due moral effect. 
44 The stud-establishments there have failed to produce the 
numbers and quality of horses required, chiefly from not de- 
pending more on true veterinary knowledge and expe- 
rience. All the officers there, except those for accounts and 
money matters, nought to be veterinary surgeons of different 
grades, with unrestrained liberty of action, so as to bring 
experienced veterinary knowledge to bear freely on the matter, 
and then some credit might accrue to the profession. It 
would pay Government to have assistant-veterinary surgeons 
with old hands, who could direct them in the right course, by 
which great benefit would result both to the public and the 
profession ; and in the latter lead to a high standard of educa- 
tion, professionally and morally, since all ought to strive to 
become gentlemen both in sentiment and conduct. I am 
glad to see your endeavours to aid this, and you have my 
warmest thanks for it ; indeed, the chief object in writing 
you is not to lose the opportunity of expressing my feelings 
in this particular. 
44 This brings me to another subject which has lately occu- 
pied your pages, and I believe it one that has damaged the 
