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skinned the horse having discovered these tumours. As the 
horse did his work well, they appeared to have been quite 
innocuous. I think the horse was 28 years of age. I hope 
some of your correspondents may please to make observations 
on this peculiar case in your valuable periodical. 
Believe me to remain. 
Most sincerely yours. 
Rotherham ; Bee. 28, 1853. 
*** We thank our friend, Mr. Peech, very much, for his 
present. It manifests his zeal and love for our science ; 
being a rare, though not unique, specimen of hydatids (for 
such his “ globular productions” are) found among mus- 
cular structure. In the Veterinarian for 1848, will be found 
two cases of the kind, both related by Mr. Vincent. The 
first was that of a young grey cart horse, in which hydatids 
were discovered within a cyst under the synovial membrane 
of the flexor perforans tendon of the fore leg, occasioning 
excessive lameness : the second, that of a chestnut cart geld- 
ing, the property of the same gentleman, Mr. Akerman, of 
Putney. The horses were the same age, and both depas- 
tured together, and were both lame for a long period. In 
the last case, the hydatids were (lodged in cysts as in the 
former case) among the flexor muscles, near the junction of 
their tendons and fleshy bellies. Can Mr. Peech inform us 
whether his hydatids were contained within cysts or not ? — 
Ed. Vet. 
“ DRUGGING,” alias POISONING, CART HORSES. 
By Jno. Tombs, M.R.C.V.S., Stratford-on-Avon. 
Dear Sir, — Cases of drugging and poisoning being so 
prevalent amongst farmers’ horses by waggoners, induces me 
to ask you to kindly record the following case in the 
Veterinarian . 
I am, dear Sir, 
Yours faithfully. 
January 9, 1854. 
December 20th, 1853. — I was called out early in the 
morning to see a bay six-years-old cart mare, the property of 
a respectable farmer, some miles distant from this town. She 
was observed to be ill, by the waggoner, at eight o’clock the 
previous evening, by rolling about, &c. Previous to my seeing 
her, at half-past six a.m., she had been bled twice, anti- 
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