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REGULATIONS IN INDIA. 
REGULATIONS IN INDIA, REGARDING THE DUTY OF 
VETERINARY SURGEONS ATTACHED TO BRIGADES OF 
HORSE ARTILLERY. 
The Veterinary Surgeon has the care of all the sick and 
lame Horses of the Brigade, and the particular super¬ 
intendence of the Shoeing, to which he will pay unremitting 
attention. It is also his duty, to bring under the notice of 
the Officer Commanding the Brigade, any circumstances 
which appear to him of material consequence to the general 
health of the Horses, and immediately to report to him any 
appearance of Glanders, or of any other contagious disease. 
2 He will deliver to the Commanding; Officer, every 
Monday Morning, a Report of the sick and lame Horses in 
the part of the Brigade at Head Quarters, and will certify, 
at the foot of it, that, during the week, he has inspected 
every Horse in the Stables. 
3 Any Horse that is taken ill, is to be immediately 
reported to the Veterinary Surgeon, and Officers Com¬ 
manding Troops are expected to give him all the assistance 
in their power, and strictly to enforce obedience to his 
directions. It will rest with him, when to order a sick Horse 
to the Hospital Stable, which is entirely under his charge, 
and no Horse is to be removed from it to the Lines but by 
his order. 
4 He is to keep a book which will contain Registers of 
his practice, in cases of sick and lame Horses, and of the 
measures which are adopted, w r hen any contagious disease 
makes its appearance, specifying the remedies, or mode of 
treatment, and the result of such treatment. 
5 He will take pains to instruct the Farriers, in the 
proper mode of paring the Horses’ hoofs, and of Shoeing. 
6 He will also take frequent occasion to instruct the 
Farrier Major and the Farriers of Troops in the common 
operations of Veterinary Surgery, as well as to point out the 
nature of his practice in ordinary cases, that they may know' 
how to treat the Horses of their Troops, when they are 
detached from the Head Quarters of the Brigade. To assist 
them in attaining this knowdedge, they are to be provided 
with a Book, in which they will register the several cases of 
the Horses in the Hospital Stable, noticing the symptoms 
and the treatment adopted by the Veterinary Surgeon. He 
w ill frequently inspect these Books, and see that they are 
correctly and distinctly kept. 
