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letter to the Veterinarian, immediately after the perusal of 

 M. Bouley's article. He says : 



" It is very many years ago I think about five-and-thirty 

 that my attention was first drawn to this disease. Not- 

 withstanding this lapse of time, however, from its being a 

 remarkable occurrence, I have all the circumstances so 

 strongly impressed on my memory that I shall, without 

 hesitation, comply with your request, by relating to you the 

 simple facts as they then, in my recollection, occurred. 



rt My attention was first drawn to the subject through 

 being called to see eight horses that were used in a pair- 

 horse stage-coach, which at that time ran from Kensington 

 to Leadenhall Street. These horses occupied an eight-stall 

 stable, built expressly for their use, and totally unconnected 

 with any other stable in the yard. The stable-man told me 

 that two or three of the horses which stood at one end of the 

 building had been rubbing and gnawing themselves for some 

 days past, which increasing until it became serious, it was 

 thought requisite to apply to me about it. On examining 

 them, I confess that I was somewhat puzzled to determine 

 the nature of the malady. It was unlike both mange and 

 surfeit in any form I had ever before seen them. Still, I 

 commenced at once to treat them the same as I had been 

 accustomed to do cases of mange, by giving them a good 

 mercurial dressing. This appeared to have the desired 

 effect for a time. But we found that the other horses, one 

 after another, became similarly affected; and that even 

 those which we considered as cured relapsed as bad as ever 

 again. One day, as I was standing watching the opera- 

 tion of dressing, an old coachman drove into the yard, and 

 soon began to ask ' what was the matter.' I confess I felt 

 myself somewhat puzzled, by way of answer to his question, 

 to give the disease a name, when the old boy followed up 



