farriers’ treatment of pneumonia. & c . 25 
preventing, after a limited time, any persons practising farriery 
give me credit for knowing as much of anatomy as that there is 
but one umbilical vein; and I think, on referring to my letter, 
you will find it so stated. The next is, I stated most distinctly 
the disease in calves , whereas you state in cattle, which makes 
my treatment appear mild beyond measure ; for what practitioner 
would think of administering the minute doses there prescribed, 
or would not push his depletive measures to a greater extent in 
a full grown animal? 
With every good wish, believe me, 
Your’s truly, 
C. D. 
FARRIERS’ TREATMENT OF PNEUMONIA. 
Extract of a Letter from Mr. James Cowie, U.S., 
Hackerton , Lawrence Kirk. 
I was lately consulted respecting a valuable horse, evidently 
labouring under pneumonia. A farrier had been called in, who 
bled the horse to about four pints, and purged him briskly with 
castor oil, having given him in the course of two days three 
bottles full. No further bleeding took place, but half-drachm 
doses of calomel and opium were given twice a-day. 
When I saw him, he was fast travelling the road on which this 
scientific treatment had directed him: the pulse was 100, with 
other corresponding symptoms. I feared that it was a lost case, 
but the owner was anxious that something should be done. I took 
away two pints of blood—he would not bear more, and blistered 
his sides, and gave him a ball composed of digitalis, nitre, and 
emetic tartar ; but before the time arrived for the exhibition of 
another ball, he was dead. 
THE CARNIVOROUS HORSE. 
Extract of a Letter from Mr. W. Garland, F.S., Wakefield. 
I was requested to attend a horse, a few days ago, belonging 
to Mr. Meltings, of Wakefield. While I was in the stable, the 
groom asked me, “ Did you ever see a horse eat meat?” I replied 
that I never did. He immediately brought into the stable about a 
pound of beef and the same quantity of bacon. The beef was 
roasted, but the bacon was raw. He just warmed the bacon a 
little. I then took the horse out of the stable, while he put the 
beef and bacon in one corner of the manger, and a feed of corn in 
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