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day. Within twenty-four or thirty-six, or say, if you will, forty- 

 eight hours, his physic will be operating and his setons discharging; 

 and having produced these effects, you have as effectually secured 

 your patient against separation of the laminae and sinking of the 

 soles as if no disease whatever had existed. Nothing can be more 

 pleasant than the feeling of confidence with which each morning, 

 when the poultices are being changed and the setons dressed, you 

 tell the groom to pick out his feet and examine his soles. * All 

 right, sir.' ' What ! no dropping ] ' ' Not a bit of it, sir,' is the 

 certain reply. — In the course of five or six days, if the case is 

 progressing favourably, leave off your poultices, and have the 

 feet stopped up — supposing the shoes to be on — dressing your 

 setons daily for ten days or a fortnight. A striking peculiarity in 

 the discharge from the setons, occasionally, is its extreme fetid 

 character. Imagine the worst thrush you ever put your nose near ; 

 it is a perfect nosegay to this discharge." 



We have but one or two suggestions to make touching these 

 excellent directions. The ''full dose of physic" directed to be given 

 at once, and without " any thing like preparation," is absolutely 

 necessary from the circumstance of the patient being unable to 

 take exercise to work it off, and from the consequence it is to his 

 future welfare ihdXfull purgation should become as early as pos- 

 sible established. Mr. Gabriel bleeds from the jugular vein. 

 Would not the plat veins be preferable, as affording, in some 

 measure, a topical as well as constitutional depletion ] Mr. Castley 

 mentions a case in which he opened " both cephalic (plat) veins at 

 the same time." After the loss of seven or eight, or perhaps more, 

 quarts of blood, coming rapidly away, the horse began to break 

 out in a sweat, breathe hard and stagger. He was standing in a 

 warm bath, out of which he was immediately taken and pinned 

 up. " Next morning the animal was found standing upon his feet, 

 apparently free from pain ; and he got rapidly well again*." The 

 poultices should be applied as hot as can be borne ; and instead of 

 being composed of bran only, are sometimes made up in part of 

 linseed meal, which makes them more retentive of heat and 

 moisture. Mr. Gloag has informed me, he uses with excellent 



* Veterinaeian, vol. iii, p. 203. 



