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TAPLIN'S MEDICINES. To the Editor of the Agricultural Magazine.- SIR,

Have read with pleasure the eighth letter of your corre-

Spondent, Veterinarius, yet the design of my now writing is not to compliment him for his ability, or you for your judg- anent in introducing his communications, but to avail myzelf vt his offer to inform your readers of the ingredients of Mr. Taplin's cathartics. He Says, if your friends will Signify their wish for this intelligence through the medium of your Maga- zine, he will not fail to comply with their desire.

[ am induced to make this request principally from his own observation, on the attention necessary to the quality of the drugs which he expresses in the following forcible manner. ?* The importance of this precaution will immediately appear, when we recollect that the medicine isincarcerated in the body of the animal during tbe long period of twenty-two hours; that the principal channel through which it has to pass, is thirty yards long; and that this extensive vessel in horses, is

much more delicate and irritable than in other animals. Hence - violent and resinous drugs will carry off the very lining or mucus of the guts; will induce inflammatory discases, and Consequent mortification."

1 have had the desire to make use of Mr. Taplin's me- dicines, in the full expectation, that any thing recommended trom Such a respectable authority would be beneficial. I was at firSt disappointed, and with Some want of candour, attributed he ill Success of my experiment, not to the mercenary dispo- Sition of the chemist, but to the deficiency of Mr. Taplin's ta- Jeuts.: From Your obszervation, I am very much inclined to wink, the whole of my misfortune has originated in the coarse- Dess of the ingredients, and I wish with the assistance of Ve- terinarius, to procure the medicaments in a Perfect State, and to compound them in my own laboratory.

4 1 am, Sir, your most humble Servant, », Chelmsford, Sept. 10, 1804. C. D. 1 IEEE EEE EEE EEE ÜB 02. For the Agricultural Magazine. ON THE CDLTIVATION OF THE BATATA. BY M. THODIN. 1* the green-house of the Musegum of Natural History, at

Paris, they have long cultivated two varieties of the batata

plant, not generally known, The o2e 1s white, tbe other red,

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