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OBSERVATIONS ON SOUNDNESS. 
upon the blood are most beneficial, preventing in a great 
degree that viscidity which is to be apprehended as the result 
of profuse evacuations. 
Certain modifications of this plan of treatment will be 
necessary under various circumstances, and the discrimination 
of the practitioner will be called into requisition to determine 
when astringents and tonics are no longer to be delayed w'ith 
afety. Extreme debility may necessitate the immediate em- 
sloyment of medicines to arrest the diarrhoea as quickly as 
possible, while a gradual loss of condition will indicate the 
propriety of combining tonics with the aliment which the 
patient receives. Pain, w'hen present, will call for the use of 
anodynes and sedatives; as a rule, how^ever, no marked 
uneasiness is shown, except in the acute form of the disease. 
When diarrhoea is the consequence of causes constantly 
acting, w'hether they refer to the moist and poor conditon of 
the pasture, or the excess of mineral matter, or both com¬ 
bined, medical treatment of individual cases wdll be subor¬ 
dinated to the greater question of the removal or amelioration 
of the unfavorable conditions of the locality. It would be 
obviously futile to attempt to remedy the malady so long as 
the causes of it continue in full activity, although the employ¬ 
ment of the usual remedies will be had recourse to with every 
chance of success after the patients have been removed to a 
more healthy situation pending the cure. 
The treatment of the soil belongs to the agriculturist, 
whose course is fortunately w ell defined in these cases. Effi¬ 
cient drainage wdll generally be the basis of his operations, 
the abandonment, if necessary, of w’ater highly charged with 
mineral constituents, and the use of the plough, when practi¬ 
cable, upon all those lands whose condition is nots ufficiently 
improved by drainage. 
[To be continued) 
OBSERVATIONS ON “ SOUNDNESS.^^ 
By R. H. Dyer, M.R.C.V.S., Waterford. 
[Continuedfromp, 8.) 
Having described in my former paper that which I con¬ 
ceive to be the proper method of examining a horse as to 
soundness, I will endeavour to follow' out the plan laid 
down, so as to elucidate the subject as fully as my pro 
