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of soda, say daily, continued for a fortnight or tliree-weeks, 
even after they have totally lost their 'milk, and become quite 
emaciated. My motive in giving small doses of Epsom salts 
in hsematuria is solely under the idea that 4 shall be better 
enabled thereby to relieve the manifolds from the hard and 
dry food contained within its leaves.: and which, if we do not 
accomplish, death will most decidedly follow. In the post-mor¬ 
tem examinations which I have witnessed (from haematuria), 
the manifolds have universally presented one hard, dry mass, 
whilst the other stomachs have only contained fluids, and no¬ 
thing to be observed about the kidneys except a morbid white¬ 
ness. 
I shall conclude by stating the result of an experiment I 
made the day before yesterday on a cow that was going to be 
slaughtered : she was kept from taking any water from the night 
previous, and then allowed to take as much as she pleased 
before she was knocked down. The time which elapsed from 
this drinking until she was opened was perhaps 40 minutes, and 
sufficient for the fluid to pass its regular course, and the result 
was strongly in favour of what Mr, Friend advanced in the last 
VeterinariaiN,— the paunch was half full of food, well diluted 
with the liquor, and a quantity of fluid merely coloured with the 
■food contained in it; the manifolds contained a small quantity of 
food, but remarkably dry, and no appearance whatever of having 
had any fluid near it, and the contents of the fourth stomach and 
small intestines were quite in a fluid state ; so that it appears to 
me, that we can exercise our power over all the stomachs except 
the manifolds. 
OBSERVATIONS ON AN ACUTE AFFECTION OF THE 
SKIN OF THE HORSE, &c. 
By Mr, William Aitken, F. S.^ Kilmarnock, 
,[We have great pleasure in inserting the following essay. At 
the examination for his diploma, each pupil of Mr. Dick’s is 
• called on to produce an essay on a given subject. This was 
Mr. Aitken’s ; and we scarcely need say that he was success¬ 
ful. It contains much merit; and when a very few additional 
yearst, and the experience which they will bring, have induced 
Mr. Aitken to attend a little less to the theory of disease and 
the effect of medicine, and to build his practice on oh^ 
servation, arid on facty we have no doubt that he will be a 
shining star in our profession.] 
