DRENCHES ARE DANGEROUS. 
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RIAN. I have little time to spare ; but I have made a hurried 
examination of the first ten volumes, and find some cases which 
I think no one can now read and misunderstand. I must allude 
to them ; but I shall mention no names. 
In the third vol., page 369, a mare took ill ; got gin and pep- 
pa’, and died: the lungs were black, and the pleura inflamed. 
The bladder had a perforation in it, through which the urine had 
escaped. I think the bladder was the first seat of disease, and 
that the draught produced the chest disease ; but on this case I do 
not much insist. In the same vol., page 440, there is a very plain 
case described as “ a complicated case of inflammation.” About 
this I have no doubt ; and by this time I should think the prac- 
titioner who attended it can have none either. In the seventh 
vol., page 648, there is another, equally plain, the chest disease 
not appearing till the day after administration of an astringent 
mixture in gruel. In the eighth vol., page 449, there is a fourth, 
which it is impossible to misunderstand. The symptoms are well 
described, and the whole case evidently detailed without the least 
reserve. The fifth, as related in the eleventh vol., page 542, is too 
recent to need specification. Let these records be read with atten- 
tion, and let no man presume to say another word upon the matter 
till he has read them. If not sufficient of themselves to produce 
conviction, nothing will. The diversity in the symptoms arises, * 
in my opinion, partly from the nature of the medicine, and partly 
from the quantity which enters the trachea. 
DRENCHES ARE DANGEROUS. 
By M. Pottie, Esq., of Yoker, N.B. 
THINKING that Mr. Stewart, my old friend and fellow pupil, 
would before now have met with some support from practitioners 
better known than I am to the profession, I have hitherto abstained 
from writing ; but since no one seems willing or able to grant his 
demands, I can refrain no longer. 
I have had reason to be fully convinced that draughts are dan- 
gerous; that we cannot wholly avoid the danger; and that we 
should never give them except when life is at stake. I speak of 
horses only, for cows are little the better for solid medicines ; but 
they are not entirely exempt from the danger of draughts. My 
experience has not been such as to enable me to say whether 
draughts are more or less dangerous if given when the horse is 
lying ; but I seldom give or order them to horses except for diseases 
which make them lie. 
