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USE OF GLANDERED HORSES IN NIGHT CABS. 
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has 
recently instituted proceedings against several cab and 
omnibus proprietors for driving glandered horses after 
nightfall in the London streets. The cruelty of the practice 
does not require to be enforced by comment, but its danger 
to human beings coming into contact with the horses cannot 
be too strongly insisted on. It is abundantly proved that the 
poison of glanders may be transmitted from the horse to man, 
from man back to the horse, and from one human being to 
another. It may, moreover, be introduced into the system by 
mere contact with the mucous surface, as well as by inocula¬ 
tion. Glandered horses, therefore, coughing and sneezing 
in the London streets, are an evil which at least demand the 
vigilance of the police as much as vagrant curs and hoops.— 
Medical Times and Gazette. 
EPSOM SALTS. 
M. Lalieu recommends the following means of disguising 
the abominable bitterness of this useful purgative :—Having 
dissolved an ounce of it in half a pint of water, boil a third of 
an ounce of ground coffee for a few minutes in the solution, 
and strain through linen. This is to be divided into two 
doses, to be taken a quarter of an hour apart from each 
other.— Bull, de Therap. 
