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is said to have failed. I think I can promise a supply of it to 
any gentleman who is disposed to experiment with it; for although 
the gentleman from whom I had received it thought that he had 
sufficiently enwrapped himself in mystery, I know him well 
enough. I will only say of it, that 1 have tried it once on a 
fair, or rather a bad case, and that it succeeded. I can guess at 
the ingredients ; but my friend (for as such I regard him) must, 
at some time or other, tell his own tale. 
Of Laryngitis two cases occurred, but neither of them accom¬ 
panied by the scarlatina described by my friends Percivall and 
Chapman. In the preceding year, however, I had a case of it. 
The papers of these gentlemen are exceedingly interesting. 
Of Mange, and some Cutaneous Eruptions almost identical with 
it, 18 cases are recorded ; and troublesome enough some of them 
have been. That which seemed to have most effect, and which in 
several instances effected a cure, hitherto permanent, was a lotion 
composed of equal parts of a decoction of tobacco and spirit of 
tar, together with the persevering use of the common alteratives, 
levigated antimony, nitre, and sulphur, with occasional mild 
purgatives. We much want a plain and practical classification 
of these skin diseases. Mr. Percivall, in the first volume of his 
Hippopathology, has rendered us much service here. Another 
touch of his w^and will dispel the whole of that obscurity which 
confounds and misleads us. 
Beside the cases of ordinary skin disease, there were two in 
which, with no scabby eruption and very little redness, there 
was a degree of itching, in one case confined to the flank, in 
another spreading almost over the frame, which nearly drove the 
horses mad. Shall we add pruitus to our list of cutaneous 
affections? It yielded to bleeding, physic, and the frequent 
application of nitrated water. 
Pure pneumonia has been particularly rare, and of pleurisy 
the cases have been few. Is it that the disease is gradually dis¬ 
appearing, as a more rational treatment of the horse is adopted, 
or that our nosology beginning to be a little more worthy 
of our art, so many diseases plainly, and most advantageously 
for us as practical men, arrange themselves under the denomi¬ 
nations of catarrh in all its shades of mildness or severity, 
bronchitis, carditis, coryza, cynanche, enteritis, fever, hepatitis, 
influenza, laryngitis, pleurisy, tracheitis, and various others, 
that there are few left for pneumonia, and they of very doubtful 
character? Whatever may be the cause, there were but two 
patients in which the characteristic symptoms of this once-sup¬ 
posed prevalent malady could be clearly traced. 
From what cause I am unable satisfactorily to explain, whe- 
