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the off one having become completely restored, and the same 

 appearances were visible upon it as had shewn themselves upon 

 the former. In another fortnight the horse had become sound 

 again, and as soon as his strength permitted him returned to his 

 work, and is now in a stable close to my own at work daily, never 

 having ailed any thing since*. 



B 17, Troop mare, five years old, was taken ill with the same 

 disease as Mr. T.'s horse, on the 23d December, 1844, and had 

 the disease so sharply that for some days her life was considered 

 in danger. On the 28th January, 1845, she being at the time in 

 a state of convalescence, she fell lame of the off fore leg, evi- 

 dently from rheumatic inflammation of the theca of the flexor 

 tendon. Some aperient and diuretic medicine were given her, and 

 she had a bandage and cooling lotion ordered for her leg. In 

 about ten days afterwards she was found lame in the near hind 

 leg, but now from inflammation of the fetlock, and remained so for 

 another ten days or so, and then fell lame in the near fore leg. 

 On the 1st of June she was admitted into the hospital again on 

 account of similar lameness in the near hind leg, thus completing 

 the round of all four legs, for which she continued under treatment 

 for three weeks, and was again sent to duty. A week afterwards, 

 on the 26th June, she came back, lame in the same leg, and was 

 cured July 4th. A third time she fell lame in the same leg on 

 the 12th August last, and- went to duty August 18th, since which 

 she has remained sound. There was no reason to suspect sprain 

 or injury in this mare's case, from which circumstance, and from 

 having had cases similar to her's, we ascribed the mare's lameness 

 on every occasion to the same (constitutional) cause. 



C 13, troop mare, five years old, was attacked with the pleuro- 

 pneumonic epidemic on the 22d January, 1845 ; had the disease 

 less severe than the foregoing two, and was discharged on the 

 24th February, apparently cured : was admitted again on the 



* Four months afterwards, and this horse has returned to us, again lame, 

 but now in the off fore fetlock joint, which is swollen much, and is hot and 

 tender. Whether this has arisen from injury or from some remnant of his 

 former complaints we cannot positively say : we suspect the latter. At all 

 events he is now — 14th Sept. — sound again. 



