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ALOES WITH GENTIAN AS A CATHARTIC. 
I send you Mr. Binnie’s letter; you may publish it if 
you please. 
Dalkeith; Aug. 13 th, 1852. 
The Pedigree of Wizgig is as follows . 
Wizgig by Wintonian, dam by Malek, grand-dam by Wan¬ 
ton, out of Lady of the Swall, by Mowbray. This animal had 
a running at one nostril from one year old till five years’ old, 
when an operation was made in her head by Mr. Ilorseburgh, 
veterinary surgeon, Dalkeith, which carried it quite off*, and 
she has been well ever since. I may mention I had above one 
hundred horses died of farcy and other diseases, by working 
hard in coaches, and make no doubt had the same operation 
been made, that a great many would have been saved. 
Wm. Binnie, Farmer, 
Overhowden, Lauder, 
Berwickshire, Scotland. 
ALOES WITH GENTIAN AS A CATHARTIC. 
By Charles Percivall, M.R.C.V.S., Royal Artillery. 
My Dear Mr. Editor, —On perusing my friend Har¬ 
ford’ s communication of the loth Hussars, in “The Vete¬ 
rinarian,” relative to the combination of gentian with aloes 
as a cathartic, I felt desirous, from its novelty as such in 
veterinary practice, to satisfy myself of its effects by testing 
its value. I have done so: it affords me very great pleasure 
to be able to bear testimony to the statements of that gentle¬ 
man in its favour. 
Mr. Hurford, in making known to the profession this im¬ 
portant piece of information, in my opinion deserves our 
thanks for the same; for, notwithstanding many practi¬ 
tioners may have been in the habit of administering it, (gen¬ 
tian with aloes,) as I have done in cases of influenza, I 
believe we were one and all ignorant of its assisting the action 
of aloes; of which the circumstance of our having all been 
silent on the subject is a sufficient proof. This I hope to 
find other members of the profession, in justice to Mr. 
Hurford, admitting, as well as myself. If the same effect can 
be produced by half the quantity of that drastic drug, aloes, by 
