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much blood out of the circulation, and lessened the determination 
of what remains to the inflamed and surcharged part); and he 
usually follows up his bleeding by physic ; he particularly recom¬ 
mends this in the inflammatory diseases to which calves are sub¬ 
ject. We should certainly object to his doses, which are often 
altogether insufficient—we might almost say inert: three ounces 
of cream of tartar (!)—even in cases of staggers twelve ounces only 
of Glauber’s salt, with two ounces each of salt of tartar (!) and 
Castile soap, and that divided into two doses. On the other hand, 
his doses of diuretics—nitre, in two and even three ounces at a 
time, are most outrageous. To his occasional treatment of the 
subsequent stages of disease we should object, especially where, 
after the influenza of cattle, he orders three ounces of powdered ca¬ 
raway-seeds, three ounces of aniseseed, and one of Peruvian bark 
and one of ginger, to be given daily : this is overcoming and de¬ 
stroying the debilitated power of nature by excess of stimulus. 
In his account of the management of breeding mares and cattle, 
and their young ones, there are some very good observations; 
but we must not have some of the worst doctrines of the old 
school revived; and theories, neither founded on anatomy or phy¬ 
siology, or experience or common sense, but wild, absurd, and 
dangerous, crammed down our throats, as they are again and 
again, u how contrary soever they may seem to be to our own 
ideas.” 
Y. 
Extracts* 
Horses in Ancient Times. 
There is pretty good evidence for supposing, that, even at 
the time of the Trojan war, horses were but rare animals in Greece, 
and were possessed only by princes or great men, who employed 
them, not for the purposes of husbandry or draught, but for 
the ornamental displays of war and chariot drawing, as the proud 
and distinctive accompaniment of royalty alone. In Judea, 
horses were, till the days of Solomon, very rare. Egypt is 
always described in the Old Testament as the land of horses. 
The earliest notice of the horse is in the Book of Genesis (chap, 
xlvii, 17), where Joseph is said to have given the Egyptians 
ci bread in exchange for their horses.” In the very minute enu- 
meration of the cattle stores of Abraham, Isaac, Esau, Laban, 
Job, &c., in the Book of Genesis, though there is a super¬ 
abundance of other quadruped property, no mention whatever 
