HART ON THE GREEN NAPHTHA. 
413 
“ In distemper, and dry husky coughs, likewise in cases of 
worms, if judiciously used, considerable benefit will be derived. 
“ In neat cattle, the rock oil may be advantageously employed 
in many instances, particularly in such diseases as are termed 
quarter evil or ill, blood-striking, black quarter, joint felon. 
“ For the scab or shab in sheep, and in foot-rot, the rock oil 
will prove one of the best remedies.” 
This is saying a great deal, and a great deal more, we appre¬ 
hend, than experience will justify. Mr. Hart can have no inten¬ 
tion to deceive us: he has no unprofessional purpose to answer 
—we acquit him entirely of that; but, like a great many zealous 
men and zealous experimentalists (we wish that we had more of 
them), he is induced to fancy that he has discovered th esummum 
bonum , because he has ascertained the existence of some valuable 
properties in a certain substance. We have lived long enough, 
how ever, to know that these boasted “ cure-alls” prove in the end 
“ humiliating memorials of credulity and infatuation.” We do not, 
however, think that this will be quite the case here. Although 
the tar water of Bishop Berkeley is now discarded, even by 
credulity itself, we are inclined to believe that the “ Green 
Naphtha” will become a valuable addition to the veterinary 
pharmacopeia. As an adjuvant in the cure of mange in the 
horse and the dog, we have had experience of its beneficial 
. effect, and we are certain that it has materially assisted in the 
removal of some chronic diseases of the respiratory passages, 
both in horses and cattle. So strongly recommended by Mr. Hart, 
it deserves a trial, and we hope will be fairly tried by our brethren; 
and Mr. Hart’s little book will be useful in supplying the for¬ 
mulas under w hich it was given or applied by him in the various 
cases w hich he describes. 
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ISxtracta from journal#, JFoxtiqn an0 0ontmt<\ 
We extract the following paper, by M. Lautour, from the 
Journal Pratique (April 1831), as an illustration of the opinion 
of some of our continental brethren on a very important point of 
veterinary jurisprudence, and likewise a kind of specimen of 
French veterinary medical consultation. Neither of the gen¬ 
tlemen consulted seem, however, to have understood the case, 
which was clearly one of pleurisy.— Edit. 
A colt of two years old was sold on the 1st of March, 1831, 
by M. C, to M. L. The purchaser took possession of the animal. 
