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ON THE DISEASES OP HORSES IN INDIA. 
I find a case of violent fever, and another of severe tetanus ac¬ 
companying it. The latter case did well. 
Causes. —With respect to the cause, I should say that, until 
you oan change the season , the disease must continue. There can 
be little doubt, I imagine, from the circumstance of their always 
accompanying each other, that the heavy rains which fall must 
be the predisposing cause ; but whether it is some atmospheric 
change, or some alteration that the herbage must undergo, or 
perhaps both, I am unable to say. If I may be allowed the ex¬ 
pression, it is evidently a disease of poverty. With respect to its 
being contagious, or infectious, I could never obtain satisfactory 
information. The natives are of opinion, that it is frequently 
communicated from a diseased horse to a healthy one through 
the medium of flies. 
Treatment. —If small bausette tumours should perchance 
make their appearance on a horse in good condition, keep him in 
a cool situation; lessen the quantity of grain and water; avoid 
green food; and administer occasionally a dose of aloes and nitre. 
In a horse low in condition, with a harsh dry coat, which gene¬ 
rally attends it, let him have a liberal quantity of grain, Grair 
is the Indian substitute for corn, and in appearance and taste is 
very similar to dry peas. Avoid green food and much water. 
When the tumours first suppurate, the simple application of dry 
tow, so as entirely to exclude the air, has a singularly beneficial 
effect, and particularly if a bandage be applied over all. In neg¬ 
lected cases from exposure to the air, I have seen these tumour s 
about the face and lips ten or twelve inches in circumference, and 
perfectly schirrous. These must be removed either by the knife 
or caustics, and afterwards carefully dressed daily with the 
nitrate of silver, which I find the very best application for healing 
old sores which sometimes arise from saddle-gall, treads, &c. &c. 
In the hope that this case may prove of service to those gentle¬ 
men who may, at some future period, go out to India, and inte¬ 
resting to the rest of the profession, I shall offer no further apology 
for having, at some length, intruded on your time and patience. 
STRANGULATION AND MORTIFICATION OF 
INTESTINE. 
By W. Per civ all, Esq., 1st Life Guards. 
ON Tuesday, Sept. 1, 1829, a little before 9 o’clock in the morn¬ 
ing, I received a message to say, that the charger of T. B., Esq., 
was labouring under “ a fit of the gripes.” lie was a dark brown 
