DISINFECTING PROPERTIES OF CHLORIDE OF SODA. 385 
Hide your diminished heads, ye Coopers, and ye Clines, and 
e Colemans! Here presents himself a man—an author!— 
/ho tells us that “HEAT, inordinate heat, is the principal of the 
3 ss evident disorders —and that pain endured at the extre¬ 
mities re-acts upon the carcase, irritates the stomach and intes- 
ines, and prevents the food from doing good ! !! 
Well may such a production be styled The Grooms' Oracle : it 
most certainly can never take root in any other soil than a dung- 
ill; and we should question very much, whether, even among 
he Lords of the Stables, it can ever grow into estimation. If it 
hould happen to do so, why, then, all we can say is, that grooms 
ven are still more devoid of horse-knowledge than we imagined 
hey were. 
\Ve shall not trouble our reader with any more quotations— 
b lino disce omnes :—We think that the sample given will be 
ally sufficient to enable him to form his opinion of this new 
ttempt of Mr. Hinds’. We heartily wish the writer would 
inploy himself to better—he cannot to less—purpose. 
£jctiactg from journals, foreign anK ©omcsttc. 
Chloride of Soda —its Disinfecting Properties. 
THE Secretary at War, in France, hearing of the repeated 
uccess of the employment of this preparation in other depart- 
nents, felt desirous that its powers should be tried in removing 
onta^ion of glanders from horse-furniture and stables. With 
his view he ordered that some experiments might be immediately 
nstituted in the regiments of the Royal Guard, under the di- 
ection of General Lord Talon; whose report was, on its being 
eceived by the Secretary, transmitted to the Journal from which 
ve now extract it. 
The General commences by observing, that the experiments 
le is entrusted to make are far from being unclogged with diffi¬ 
culties, from the circumstance of their hinging upon a question 
vhich has long divided the most experienced veterinarians, as 
veil as the most celebrated cavalry officers ; and that, being him¬ 
self long of opinion that glanders was a contagious disease, 
igainst the spreading of which too scrupulous measures could not 
3e taken, he did not enter the present held of investigation with¬ 
out some unfavourable aspect towards any chemical disinfecting 
power. 
First, six cases of glanders were picked out of the different 
[household) regiments; they were the worst that could be found, 
