IN HORSES AND EPIDEMIC CHOLERA. 
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have seen, of late, that the remedies proposed were of the descrip¬ 
tion here pointed out. Horseradish tea has been givan in Lin¬ 
colnshire, and a cholera tincture is now sold in the shops; but, 
in the manner of using them, there does not seem to be a full un¬ 
derstanding of the true nature of the disease, which they continue 
to call cholera; nor do they appear to be aware of the necessity 
of making their treatment efficient by a combined plan of opera¬ 
tions in the attacking; it: so that their treatment is almost an em- 
pirical one, and would not, in this case, be attended with so exten¬ 
sive a success. 
If this small communication is deemed worthy your notice, it 
is at your service, to apply it to whatever purpose you please. 
Medical Gazette. 
Regent’s Park, Oct. 12, 1832. * 
Mr. Bracy Clark has here ingeniously traced a certain degree 
of resemblance, in one symptom at least, between spasmodic cho¬ 
lera in the horse and cholera in the human being; but we have 
very great doubt as to the truth of the more extended analogy 
which he imagines to exist between these diseases, whether we 
regard their seat, or character, or termination, or treatment. 
We hope, in an early number of the next volume, to be able to 
present our readers with some cases of actual cholera which oc¬ 
curred, both in cattle and horses, in the practice of a very skilful 
veterinary surgeon in a northern district. The general symptoms, 
the faecal discharge, the fearful collapse, the morbid appearances, 
were, in a manner, identical. 
ON COOKING FOOD FOR HORSES. 
By Mr. William Dick, Veterinary Surgeon , Edinburgh. 
The deficiency in last year’s crop of hay and straw was such 
as to have been severely felt by all those connected with horses, 
and naturally excited a desire of using these articles as econo¬ 
mically as possible : and as the attention which has been bestow¬ 
ed by some individuals who have had a pretty ample field for 
experiment has led to what I consider some useful results, it 
appears to me, that notwithstanding the very favourable pros¬ 
pects which are before us in every part of the country, the know¬ 
ledge that much saving may be effected by an economical use of 
fodder, may be useful to all or most of your agricultural readers. 
And, even should the abundance of the present crop be such as 
