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no assignable cause,—vve administer our physic. The aloes 
will be the best, and in quantity varying from six to twelve 
drachms. Thus the intestinal canal, which to a greater or less 
degree will share in the oppression, will be evacuated, or some 
cause of irritation probably removed. 
The Doses of A loes administered by some French Veterinarians. 
—I cannot, however, recommend you to adopt the seemingly 
outrageous doses of aloes to which some of our continental 
brethren have recourse. M. Mangin had tried without success 
various methods of treating staggers ; but observing that in many 
cases the large intestines were filled with a great quantity of 
faeces, he began to suspect that they, and not the stomach, 
might occasionally, or oftener than we suspected, be the seat of 
the disease, and he determined that he would trv what strons: 
purgatives would do. He soon had opportunity, and, in the space 
of twelve hours, he gave to a horse with staggers four drinks, 
each of them containing two ounces of aloes and three ounces 
of Epsom salts. The horse was well on the sixth day. He gave 
the same quantities of purgative medicines to three other horses, 
and he saved them all. This becoming a matter of much remark, 
Professors Dupuy and Bardin were desired by the French go¬ 
vernment to examine into the matter. They reported that the 
cases had been correctly stated, yet, notwithstanding the success 
which attended the treatment, they were disposed somewhat to 
blame M. Mangin for administering such large doses of aloes in 
so short a time. The practitioner replied that, the horses being 
in a comatose state, purgative medicines would not act with their 
usual energy; and so the matter rested. To a certain degree 
M. Mangin was right; yet he should have recollected that the 
organic nerves were not those primarily affected in such cases, 
and I confess I should be loath to give such doses. 
Tonics. —Many practitioners are fond of strong stimulants 
given internally, and with the view of causing the stomach to 
contract upon its contents. If they arc admissible at all, it is 
in order to restore the tone of the stomach after the greater por¬ 
tion of its contents have been expelled. 1 should prefer giving 
them with the physic. I would add double the usual quantity 
of ginger to the physic ball; or if 1 gave my pliysic in the form 
of a solution of aloes, I would add an ounce of the tincture of 
ginger. 
The beneficial Jf 'ect of Illeedin^. —A French veterinary sur¬ 
geon has recorded in the liecueil de Alcd. Vet., tome v, two 
cases of the successful treatment of sta<i:<rers runnino- on to 
phremtis. 
He thus descril)es the first case :—A 
rse, utter a fatiguing 
