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when applied to an organ protected by a horny box which 
renders the examination long and difficult. 
When a lame horse is submitted to examination the first 
thing is to ascertain the lame limb ; after which the lateral 
artery of the affected limb is to be explored ; if it is distended, 
and the pulsation more easily felt than in the correspond- 
ing leg, we are by this means convinced that the affection is 
in the foot, the shoe must be removed and the foot examined ; 
and it very seldom happens that the cause is not discovered. 
Almost daily we have to examine horses in which the pul- 
sation of the lateral arteries indicate the affection to be in the 
foot, but in which the examination of the foot is declared to 
be useless, the lameness being supposed to be in the leg, and 
even several examinations having been fruitless, when with a 
little persistence and renewed examination the lesions are 
found in the foot which explain the cause of the lameness. 
In this manner we have been able to discover horses having 
been pricked in shoeing, separation of the sole, cancers, &c., 
in horses which had been considered lame from sprained 
fetlock, &c. We also use this mode of exploring the 
lateral arteries, to judge of the modification produced by 
the treatment w ithout moving the horse out of the stable. 
We have endeavoured to extend this discovery to the 
diagnosis of disease in the ox tribe, but the disposition of the 
blood-vessels and their division have not enabled us to 
detect the slightest variation in the pulsation of the 
metacarpal or metatarsal arteries in animals that suffer con- 
siderably from supuration, and ulceration, consequent an 
eczema.* 
CANCEROUS GROWTH ON THE PENIS. 
By M. SUYKERBUYCK. 
This case w r as in a gelding about twenty-five years old, 
belonging to a riding master at Antwerp. There had been 
for the last two years a foetid discharge from the penis. The 
owner had almost decided to have the horse killed, but being 
handy for the instruction of young pupils in the riding 
school, he submitted him to the examination of the author* 
The collateral information w 7 as that two years ago a horse 
had been killed which had an affection of the penis, after 
which several horses in the same establishment became 
* There is nothing new in this, as it is the general practice to explore the 
lateral arteries in all cases of lameness in well-bred horses ; in cart-horses 
it is very difficult on account of the thickness of the skin. 
