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urinary passage. It was certainly connected with the disease, 
as the colt was not known to have been hurt. In every other 
respect it is similar to diseased joints and abscesses, to which 
sucking colts are peculiarly susceptible. 
The dam of the colt died on the 10th December, with acute 
farcy and glanders; evidently demonstrating that the impuri- 
ties in the blood of the colt were hereditary. 
Dec. 6th . — I was called in to see her ; she was lying down, 
groaning, looking back, blowing highly, and perspiring pro- 
fusely, with loss of appetite. A swelling was observed coming 
on the off fore leg a week ago. Now, the leg and arm are con- 
siderably swollen and ulcerated. There is also a discharge from 
the nostril of the same side, and abrasions upon the pituitary 
membrane. 
8th . — Symptoms increased in violence. Extensive slough- 
ing of the integuments and cellular membrane, accompanied 
with profuse hemorrhage. A discharge from both nostrils. The 
stench from the putrefying sores is intolerable. 
10th . — Limb mortified : died. 
No post-mortem examination. This was a constitutional 
affection. No doubt the lungs were diseased, and that this was 
coupled with the death of the colt. Altogether it was a remark- 
able case, and one highly instructive to the humoral patholo- 
gist. 
P.S. — The mare did not contract this disease, as she was 
never from home. 
CERTIFICATES FOR SHOEING. 
By “A Member of the London College." 
To the Editor of u The Veterinarian .” 
Dear Sir, — PERUSING the pages of your valuable Journal, 
now rendered doubly so by the discontinuance of the “ Record ” 
— a circumstance every member of the profession must regret — 
I have felt considerably interested upon the subject of hot and 
cold shoeing, so well discussed before the Central Society of 
Veterinary Medicine. And now that the public mind is still 
fresh upon the past, permit me, through the medium of your 
work, to draw attention to a point of the greatest importance to 
every member of the Veterinary College, but particularly so to 
those who have still to present themselves before that honourable 
