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USE OF CANTHA RIDES IN GLANDERS. 
served to ruminate in the evening. I gave, to-day, 4 oz., in the 
whole, of anise, caraway, and ginger, mixed with beer, gruel, and 
treacle. 
4 th Day . — Voids small patches of dung; ruminates; eats and 
drinks tolerably; stands for a longer time. The carminative dose 
repeated. 
5th Day . — Still improving. I ordered her to have beer, gruel, 
and treacle. 
6th Day . — A messenger arriving to tell me that she was getting 
on well, I did not visit her again. 
In this case the urgent symptoms were soon relieved. Whether 
the creasote had any thing to do with it I cannot affirm; but the 
cataplasm produced, in twelve hours, a profuse serous cellular in- 
filtration. Thus much, however, I will say, that our sheet-anchor in 
the cure of this malady will be extensive spinal counter-irritation, 
sedatives, rousing the rumen, and clearing the lower bowels by 
clystering and mild purgation, in order to remove what remains in the 
canal above. We may give dose after dose, but we shall not purge 
our patient until rumination begins, and then the bowels will act al- 
most of themselves, and generally in proportion to the rumination. 
Most of us are aware that it is easy to purge while rumination is 
going on; and all of us, in cattle practice, are often annoyed in 
giving purgatives, dose after dose, without effect. They have en- 
tered the paunch, and there they remain : but stimulate and excite 
the rumen to act, and purging soon commences, and sometimes 
violently. 
About two years ago, I had a case of milk fever that, on the 
fourth day after the attack, left the hind parts, and, by means of the 
spinal cord, the brain became implicated, producing an incapability 
of raising her fore parts; spasmodic retraction of the neck to the 
side; the eyes drawn into the orbit; amaurosis; excessive irrita- 
bility; and stupor. Should I meet with a case of this sort again, 
I shall bleed from the root of the horns. She died shortly after 
the attack. 
ON THE USE OF CANTHARIDES IN GLANDERS. 
By Mr. J. B. MlNIKEN, Wexford. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Sir, — Allow me, through the medium of your Journal, to offer 
a few remarks relative to glanders, in which disease I have found 
large doses of cantharides most successful ; and although it may 
be a subject uninteresting to many of the profession, yet some de- 
