OINTMENT FOR THE GREASE. 5G9 
others, but nevertheless he had returned to the stable without 
appearing injured. 
He died eighteen hours after the accident. 
Recueil Med. Vet. July 1833. 
Ointment for the Grease. 
By M. Rodier, V.S.f Isle of Bourbon. 
R Sub-acetate of copper, one part 
Lard, four parts 
Honey sufficient to give it the consistence of pomatum; 
Mix carefully, and preserve for use. 
As in the ordinary treatment of grease, fomentations and 
emollient poultices wiW precede the use of this ointment some 
days when there is much local inflammation. The ointment 
should be spread over the part as thinly as possible two or three 
times a-day, until a cure is effected. At each application the 
activity of the ointment should be a little diminished by adding 
to it a small quantity of honey, especially when we begin to per¬ 
ceive the good effect w’hich it produces. The ointment remaining 
on the part should be washed off with a little warm soap and 
water before a fresh quantity is applied; and during the treat¬ 
ment, the diseased legs should be kept as much as possible from 
the wet. 
Recueil Med. Vet.^ July 1833. 
American Horses and Travelling. 
The following account of the American horses is related by 
Adam Fergusson, of Woodhill, advocate, made during a tour in 
Canada, and a portion of the United States, in the year 1831. 
This gentleman is a director of the Highland Society of Scot¬ 
land. His visit w'as for the express purpose of satisfying the 
society regarding the actual condition and prospects of agricul¬ 
tural settlers in these countries; his report may therefore be con¬ 
sidered a just one, and free from that partiality w^hich has so 
frequently characteiized the publications of trans-atlantic travel¬ 
lers :—Scarce had I set foot on shore,” says Mr. Fergusson, 
in New York, when my eye was attracted to the figures of the 
horses in the hackney coaches and drays, and every subsequent 
opportunity tended more and more to delight me with the breed 
of horses, both in the States and Canadas. Mr. R-r had 
about twenty in his stables, part of them, of course, employed 
with the oxen on the farm; but all of them, in point of shape, 
figure, and action, such as would command, in Britain, the 
