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and we “ candidly confess” (to use Mr. J.’s own language to 
us), that we hope, or rather are assured, that the time is not far 
distant, when, as in the medical profession, no young man will 
be permitted to commence practice, until he has satisfied certain 
competent examiners that he possesses this theoretic know¬ 
ledge/’ united to sound practical principles. Edit. 
March Wth, 1830.—A young brown horse, the property of 
Mr. Boak, farmer, was sent to me at four o’clock in the after¬ 
noon, that had taken badly through the night, and had refused 
to feed. Early in the morning the corn was put in the manger 
before him, and left until the men returned about mid-day * they 
then found that his food was not touched, but that he had pawed 
and had tumbled very much, with profuse sweating. I bled him, 
as his pulse was about 46, and gave him 1 oz. opii tinct., 1 oz. 
sp. tereb., and 1 quart of linseed oil. I back-raked him, and 
gave him several clysters. He now settled himself, and dunged 
several times; and about seven o’clock seemed quite well. I 
saw him done up for the night, and that he had eaten a mash. I or¬ 
dered his servant to stop till 12 at night, and then to go home. 
Mr. B. was from home at that time, but he returned before 10 
that night, and ordered another servant to come for the horse, 
saying, that the doctors should always come to their patients. I 
was then sent for to my stables, and informed the servants of the 
danger of taking the horse out, as he had been very wet with 
sweat, and at that time it was very cold, and the wind was high. 
“ It is your master’s orders, you say ; you may see that it is for 
his interest that the horse should not go back to night.” I then 
left them, and about 15 minutes afterwards I was informed that 
the horse was away. 
\2th. About five o’clock in the morning I was sent for, be¬ 
cause the horse had been very bad all night. When I arrived I 
found the pulse 52. I bled him again, and gave a ball with four 
dis. of aloes, and I left them two doses of emet. tart, and digitalis. 
I also back-iaked him, and found no dung, but a large mass in 
the colon, about the size ot a stable-pail. I then ordered them to 
give him no straw, nor food of any kind, but that he should be 
clystered with a large quantity of warm water every hour; and 
that he should have plenty of water gruel. 
- I visited him in the afternoon, and found him in the same 
state. I then gave him 10 oz. of castor oil and 1 oz. of opii. 
tinct., as he had been very uneasy through the day. The clyster 
were continued as before, with salts added, and gruel was criven 
in large quantities with the horn. 
13//g I was informed that he had been a little better all 
