THE VETERINARY ASSOCIATION. 269 
coat. They are quite useless for either purpose, at least as they 
are given, only one or two at a time. If they are to do any 
good, the horse would need a dozen of them, or thereabouts, I 
should think. One or two, however, can have no good effect. 
The egg is chipped, starred as they call it, all round, and given 
raw, like a ball. 
Several, many horses have been lost by the egg sticking in the 
throat and producing suffocation. If eggs must be given, let 
them be broken and mixed with a mash, or boiled hard and 
added to the corn. But I see no need of them in any shape. 
Milk .—In this country milk is not used as an article of food 
for grown-up horses. Occasionally it is giyen to stallions in the 
covering season. A mash is made of milk, bran, and oil-cake, 
ground ; and in Ayrshire, whey is frequently given to stallions 
as a drink. It is supposed to be amatory food.’’ The Arabs, 
in traversing the Desert, are said to give their horses camel’s milk, 
when forage fails. Major Denham, speaking of some horses he 
met with among theTiboos, says—“ two of them were very hand¬ 
some, though small; and on remarking their extreme fatness, I 
was not a little surprised to learn that they were fed entirely on 
camel’s milk, corn being too scarce and valuable an article for the 
Tiboos to spare them. They drink it both sweet and sour ; and 
animals in higher condition I scarcely ever saw*.” 
THE VETERINARIAN, MAY 1, 1838. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.—CicEno. 
We refer with much satisfaction to the reports of the late pro¬ 
ceedings of the Veterinary Medical Association, as given in the 
latter portion of this month’s Journal, and extended to somewhat 
n^ore than their usual length. The profession is much indebted 
to Messrs. Beech and Baker for the subjects selected by them 
and the manner in which they are treated. 
As to the dangers to the horse in the battle-field, they have 
been lightly passed over by our best writers on veterinary sur¬ 
gery, as interesting only to a small division of our brethren, but, 
a class of men deservedly respected, and on whose character and 
bearing our general acceptation and repute much depend. 
VOL. XI. 
* Denliiim’s Travels in Africa, 
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