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3: and, in both years, the advantage of gentle aperient medi¬ 
cine, and the danger of pushing it but a very little too far, were 
sufficiently evident. 
Of Carditis, of which, in 1832, 8 cases occurred, there was 
only 1 in 1833, and 1 in 1834, 
Of true Flatulent Colic, so rife in the north of the kingdom, 
not a single case occurred in either 1833 or 1834. Of serious 
Spasmodic Colic, the 15 cases of 1833 actually dwindled down 
to 4 in 1834; and all of them yielded to bleeding where fever 
was indicated, walking exercise, and the spirits of turpentine and 
opium. 
Three bad cases of Farcy in the last year, and 1 in the present, 
yielded to the application of the budding-iron, occasional appli¬ 
cation of the corrosive sublimate wash, and the internal admi¬ 
nistration of the sulphate of iron, with gentian and ginger—not in 
the form of our friend Turner’s solutio)i —very useful, doubt¬ 
less, in many a case; but administered in the old-fashioned way, 
as a ball. 
Of Simple Fever, and in such a form that it could not admit 
of a moment’s doubt or question, 6 cases occurred in the last 
year, and 7 in the preceding ; and they all were subdued by 
prompt yet moderate bleeding until the pulse just began to be 
affected, small doses of laxative medicine, digitalis, and nitre. 
The cases of Fistulous Withers that occurred afforded addi¬ 
tional proof, if it were wanting, that nothing more is necessary 
for the cure than a seton through the lowest sinus, and a solution 
of the chloride of lime, varying in strength according to the ap¬ 
pearance or foetor of the wound, and although gradually yielding 
to the compound tincture of aloes, yet, perhaps, occasionally 
resorted to again and again. 
Of (j cases of Glanders, 5 took their usual course, and the 
patients died. The other was a case of acute glanders, serious, 
and threatening to be fatal. A medicine (the composition of 
which I know not, but which was sent to me by a veterinary 
surgeon in the west-country, with the promise that, if it proved 
to be eliectual, the w'hole history and nature of it should be di¬ 
vulged for tlie good of the profession) was administered ; and under 
the influence of which the horse rapidly improved, and is now 
perfectly sound and well. A portion of it was sent to Professor 
Coleman, who promised that it should receive a fair trial. It 
was entrusted to a person at the College, who exjn’essed great 
unwillingness to use it, until he was properly silenced by the 
positive command of liis suj)erior. It was not used, after all, at 
the College, where the observation of its effect would have been 
interesting, but on an out-patient {urc iheij still allowed and 
