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are greatly reduced, and the horse can now move about his 
box, but there is some appearance of sloughing of the in¬ 
tegument. The trickling of bloody mucus from the nose has 
stopped; the appetite is still improving, and the eye brighter. 
Continue the medicine. 
2nd.—The pulse is about the same as yesterday, and 
the swellings seem to be still diminishing. He prefers dry 
corn and hay to anything else. I dressed the sloughing 
parts with a weak solution of Plumbi Acetas, prescribed 
> internal medicine as before, which w^as repeated daily until 
the 6th, when he was so much improved that I ordered the 
medicine to be discontinued, and directed him to have plenty 
of good food. 
I saw the owner about three weeks ago, when he said the 
horse was now working every day, and doing well. 
Facts and Observations. 
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 
TO Animals. —The following communication has been 
received by the president of this society:—Marlboi'ough 
House, May 7th, 1863. Dear Lord Harrowby,—I have the 
honour to acknowledge the receipt of your communication, 
submitting, as president of the Royal Society for the Pre¬ 
vention of Cruelty to Animals, the request of the committee 
that their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of 
Wales would honour the society with their names as 
patrons; and I am desired by their Royal Highnesses to 
state the pleasure it gives them to accede to this request, 
and to add the high opinion they entertain of the merits of 
the society, and of the beneficial results that have attended 
its exertions in this country, and the noble example which 
it has set to other nations.—I have, &c., W. Knollys.^^ 
Poisoning of a Flock of Sheep. —A curious case of 
poisoning, by whieh a flock of sheep was destroyed, has 
been communicated to the French Central Society of Agri¬ 
culture. Sulphuric acid is used in the maceration of the 
pulp of beetroot, but a farmer who fed his sheep with that 
vegetable thought fit to add four litres of sulphuric acid 
and 1800 grammes of sulphate of iron to every 1000 kilo¬ 
grammes of beetroot. The sheep who ate of the pulp thus 
