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the entire summer ; it was at last resolved to get rid of 

 the animal. Mr. Goodwin told me he met a similar case in 

 the Royal stables, and the horse was consequently sold at 

 TattersalFs. In these cases, the sense of itching and 

 irritation is so great that the horses violently bite and tear 

 the skin upon their backs ; so that after being kept racked 

 up all day, and even for weeks, or having worn cradles, and 

 being to appearance cured, in one night they will gnaw 

 themselves, and become worse than ever. 



Oct. 5th, 1850. — A four year old horse (A 25) was shown 

 me this morning, with one circular patch, nearly bare, upon 

 his rump, close to his dock, and several others (three or 

 four) on the ofiP quarter, lower down. Little vesicles, con- 

 taining fluid, first came. These run into one another, and 

 break, the hair matting over them, and coming off along 

 with desquamations of the cuticle, which lies in cakes or 

 scabs around the places where the vesicles appear. I 

 viewed the places through a magnifying glass, and dis- 

 tinctly saw heaps of these scabs, which, when they separate, 

 bring the hair off with them, and leave the places bare 

 until new hair springs up and covers them. This horse 

 has got the tushes, and is now cutting his 5 year old teeth, 

 without any reddening of gum, or the slightest irritation. 



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I acknowledge myself unprepared to draw up any account 

 of this disease grounded on personal observation : I shall, 

 therefore, have recourse to Hurtrel d'Arboval. 



Tetter, or ringworm, is a specific cutaneous inflammation, ordinarily 

 of a chronic character, occasionally intermittent, and almost always obsti- 

 nate ; distinguished by certain signs or appearances from other affections 

 of the skin, by the circumstances of its occupying circumscribed patches, 

 and by those places being separated by boundaries from the healthy 

 parts. Whether it be contagious or not remains an unsettled question. 

 It is a disorder all domestic animals are subject to : but it occurs oftener 



