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CASES OF CANKER AND TENOTOMY. 
horse lost a great deal of flesh, and was some time before 
he regained his former strength and vigour. The abscess was 
immense, and I should say discharged at least a gallon, from 
first to last, of well-concocted matter. The swelling had the 
appearance of a pillow stuffed under the skin. I ought to have 
remarked, that strangles was very severe and prevalent that 
season among young stock in the neighbourhood. The horse in 
question died last summer. 
This is the latest period of life I ever met with a case of 
strangles. 
I am, 
Your’s respectfully, 
John Couch Quick. 
St. Ives, Cornwall, 12th March, 1851. 
*** We are truly obliged to Mr. Quick for his prompt and 
satisfactory communication in answer to our query. Although 
the envelope inclosing it was headed “private,” we feel sure 
he will excuse our publishing it, containing, as it does, a piece 
of information bearing so importantly on the true nature and 
production of strangles. — Ed. Vet. 
CASES OF CANKER AND TENOTOMY. 
By Thos. Wells, M. R. C. Y. S., Norwich. 
1. Canker. 
The subject was a large dray-horse, about ten years of age, 
which the messenger who came for me stated to be excessively 
lame, in consequence of having a large frush, which had been 
gradually spreading for the last six or eight months, and that 
the animal had been attended by a farrier in the neighbourhood 
during that period. I was at a loss to imagine what could be 
wrong, for if the man had said the animal was lame from having a 
contracted foot, I could have formed a pretty shrewd guess of 
the nature of the disease. On proceeding to the stable and ex- 
amining the horse, I soon ascertained that the “enlarged” foot was 
caused by a neglected case of canker ; and on a more minute 
inspection, I found that the entire crust, sole, bars and frog were 
completely separated from the parts which in a state of health 
secrete them, but which of late appeared to have taken on quite 
a different action ; for on removing the horn, I found the entire 
foot so completely studded with a kind of fungous granulation, 
resembling cartilage, and partaking of something in nature be- 
tween cartilage and horny matter, that it was with difficulty a 
