ON GLANDERS AND FARCY. 
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be worth twenty pages. We have likewise to complain, that 
our author has somewhat too frequently displayed his pro¬ 
ficiency in the art of ingeniously tormenting*; for when we have 
followed his reasoning with considerable pleasure through one 
of his far too numerous sections, and are arriving we think at a 
conclusion in which we shall heartily acquiesce, or a discovery that 
we shall hail with delight, we turn the leaf, and a title bearing no 
affinity to the subject we were pursuing, annoys and confounds 
us; and when, many a page afterwards, we again hit upon our 
favourite topic, the charm is broken, and neither we nor the 
author can do justice to it. 
As to the remedy which Mr. Vines proposes—cantharides 
w r ith vegetable tonics—he tells us that he has given it with 
“ highly" beneficial results;” but as he does not favrur us with 
any detailed history of cases, stating the nature and extent of 
these results, we can only refer our readers to the account which 
he gives of it in the work itself, in language strong enough, 
but much too general to satisfy us. YVe sincerely hope that 
Mr. Y ines may derive reputation, and something more solid, frcm 
the publication of this w ork ; and that his remedy may not follow 
too many others, we were going to say, every boasted specific in 
such a disease, to the tomb of all the Capulets. 
Extract* from $ourttate, ^Foreign anti Bomr^ttr; 
Hepatirrhcea (l'Apoplexie DU Fois). 
By MM. Dupuy and Prince. 
[Journal Pratique, January 1830.] 
A horse appeared to be unwell. It ate little and slowly for 
nine days. It was then taken from work; but before the illness 
disappeared was sent again to its usual task. It had not tra¬ 
velled more than an hour, during which it seemed to throw it¬ 
self with spirit into the collar, bet ore it fell, struggled for a few 
seconds, and died. v 
It was opened eight hours after death. The abdomen con¬ 
tained nearly tw o buckets full of blood. The liver w as treble its 
natural size, and had displaced, above and to the left, the sto¬ 
mach and the spleen. The serous membrane of the liver was 
torn irregularly across the whole of the posterior face of the 
right lobe, and farther laceration seemed to have been prevented 
by an enormous clot of blood retained on the membrane by fibrous 
prolongations. 
