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EXTENSIVE DISEASE OF LUNGS. 
iodide of iron, giving it in half-drachm doses daily, which 
soon greatly improved his appetite, and reduced the swelling 
as if by magic. This so pleased my captain, that he gave 
me free use of his stores for port wine and bottled ale for my 
patient. These I gave him daily, and in a short time after 
using the iodide of iron, I perceived I was on the right track 
to master this formidable malady; for my patient improved 
rapidly, although he was on the sick list about three months 
before he was fit for duty. 
When we arrived at Baroda, I had a great number of 
horses on the sick list, and amongst them several affected 
with zurbcird , but in a mild form. All of these I treated 
with the iodide of iron ; when I again saw I had in that valua¬ 
ble agent the means wherewith to stop the progress of the 
disease. I owe to Professor Morton my knowledge of it, 
and consider the profession is highly indebted to him for 
introducing so valuable a medicine into our materia medica. 
EXTENSIVE DISEASE OF LUNGS WITHOUT ANY 
PREMONITORY SYMPTOMS — REMARKS ON 
VETERINARY OBSTETRICS. 
By W. Furnivall, M.R.C.V.S., Kington. 
On the 15th of February last, I was requested by Mr. 
W. Ward, builder, in this town, to see two bay cart-horses, 
which had been reported amiss three days before by the 
wagoner, who stated that they had a slight cough, and were 
off their feed. The owner, previous to my being called 
in, had given to each a pint of linseed oil and then Aloes 
Bbd. 5viij, in ball. 
On my arrival, I found the aged horse suffering from 
superpurgation ; pulse 60 and weak, loss of appetite, accele¬ 
rated breathing, flanks tucked up, legs and ears very cold, 
mucous tissues congested, submaxillary glands swollen. 
I ordered mustard and ammonia to be applied to the neck 
and throat, stimulated the extremities with Lin. Tereb., using 
plenty of friction ; gave starch gruel, and Pulv. Opii ^ij in 
haustus, and throw up enemas consisting of starch and oat¬ 
meal gruel. I also directed the patient to be well clothed, 
and his general comforts attended to. 
Examining the six-year old animal, I found that the physic 
had but slightly increased the action of his bowels; but the 
