650 
REVIEW OF MOIROUD’s 
peculiar notice and commendation. This is placing our art 
where it should be—it is made a component part of the agri¬ 
culture of the country; and where this relation is acknowledged, 
the advantage is and must be mutual. 
And now, having introduced the pupils to their respective 
instructors, this leading article shall conclude by reminding 
them of the value of the little time they have to spare for the 
acquisition of a great deal of important knowledge, and by en¬ 
treating them to identify themselves with the growing reputation 
of their art, and to prepare themselves for assuming, and at no 
distant period, that situation which they ought to occupy in the 
agricultural, the medical, and the scientific world. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. —Hor. 
Traite Ele?ne?itaire de Matiere Medicale et Pharmacologie 
Vetcrinaire : par M. Moiroud. Paris, 1831. 
[Continued from vok vi, p. 619.] 
[We had discontinued the analysis of this work, because we 
were fearful that we were growing tedious; but at the request of 
several of our correspondents we will resume it. It is somewhat 
interesting to become acquainted with the medicaments which 
our continental neighbours employ, and to trace sometimes their 
agreement, and, at other times, the strange contrariety of opinion 
between us and them as to the effects which they produce. We 
frequently smile, but we do occasionally gain a useful lesson.] 
Diuretic Substances belonging to the Vegetable 
Kingdom. 
Squills. —This drug acts locally, after the manner of the 
most energetic irritating substances, especially when adminis¬ 
tered in a state of powder; it then produces in the dog vomiting 
and purging, and, if the quantity employed is considerable, it 
causes difficulty of breathing, congestion of blood in the head, 
and, consequently, vertigo, convulsions, and death. Applied 
to the cellular tissue in doses of thirty grains, it produces death 
in about twenty hours. 
