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A NEW CURE FOR GLANDERS. 
do consider it a great honour) with the publication of these 
lectures, I receive continually a great number of letters, most 
of them—all of them, I am happy to say, in the highest degree 
friendly. I have, among others, received one from a gentleman 
of the name of Pedduck, but whom I have not the honour of 
knowing, who says, that in consequence of the case I have pub¬ 
lished on glanders in the human subject, he thinks it right to 
give me the information which his note contains; and I may as 
well take this opportunity of giving it publicity as any other, by 
reading the letter. It is as follow’s:— 
“ Dear Sir,—Your very excellent paper on glanders in the 
human subject, published in the Med . Chirur . Trans., of which 
an analysis is given in the Med. Chirur. Rev., has called to my 
remembrance a remedy mentioned to me by the veterinary sur¬ 
geon of the 13th regiment of Dragoons at Canterbury, in 1820, 
for the cure of glanders in horses. It consisted simply of Venice 
turpentine diffused in steam. The mode of application was, by 
putting a quantity of scalded bran, mixed with Venice turpen¬ 
tine, into a horse-hair bag, and tying it over the horse’s head, 
wrapping his whole body at the same time in a large blanket, 
wrung out of boiling water, and covering him with several 
horse-cloths. This threw him into a profuse sweat, promoted 
free discharge from the frontal sinuses and nostrils, and the 
healing of the ulcerations. A cure w r as the consequence of this 
plan of treatment, continued daily, when the bones had not al¬ 
ready become carious. 
“ Having myself employed the general vapour-bath, w ith te- 
rebinthinate medications, in many cases of malignant sores, both 
in private and dispensary practice, with success, you will pardon 
me for recommending to you a trial of the same remedy, in the 
event of more cases of glanders in the human subject presenting* 
themselves to your notice. 
“ I have the honour to be, dear sir, 
“ Your faithful servant, 
“ H. Pedduck, M.D. ’ 
Situation of Hydatids in the Brain of Sheep. 
At a meeting of the London Medical Society a short time 
since, the following experiment on a sheep which was subject to 
the formation of hydatids in the head, was related by Mr. Ste¬ 
phens in the course of some remarks which were made on the 
greater success which might be expected to attend tapping in 
cases of acute than in chronic hydrocephalus. He observed that 
