CASE OF G ASTRO-ENTER IT IS IN THE HORSE. 
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couple of seconds between their steps. We are informed by the 
same authority that every advance made by either biped amounts 
to about a third more than the admeasurement from fore foot to 
hind, while the animal is standing still; and that while the pace is 
performing the hind foot invariably over-passes the print of the 
corresponding fore foot, thereby obtaining great advantage of 
leverage. 
‘ If,” says Lecoq, “ the amble has with reason been banished 
from the manage, it is no less sought after, on account of the dou- 
ceur de ses reactions , by persons who prefer ease or convenience 
to brilliancy of pace or action. A distinction, however, must be 
made between the ambler by nature and the horse in whom the 
pace is the product of education or the result of weakness.” 
In former days — in those good old days when the pillion was in 
fashion — the amble bears record of being a pace in considerable 
estimation : an ambling horse Avas a treasure as an easy and safe 
roadster, and if not so very expeditious in his movements for a 
short distance, yet by his untiring continuance in the same pace, 
at the end of a long journey was he found to have gone over more 
ground, and in less space of time, than any person unacquainted 
with his pace would have imagined. At the present day, how- 
ever, one never sees an ambling nag; neither are canterers so 
abundant as they used to be: walk, trot, and gallop, are all people 
in these days of reduction of every thing down to the scale of bare 
usefulness, seem to care about. 
A SINGULAR CASE OF GASTRO-ENTERITIS IN THE 
HORSE. 
By Mr. T. WRIGHT, Brighton. 
The following very interesting case having recently occurred in 
the practice of Mr. E. N. Gabriel, I am induced, through the kind 
consent of that gentleman, to forward an account of it to you for 
publication, if you should deem it worthy of insertion in The 
Veterinarian. 
The patient was a pony about fourteen hands high, in good con- 
dition, and constant work, the property of a Mr. Edwards, in whose 
possession he had been nearly three years, and had not been known 
during that period to shew any symptoms of illness until Friday, 
the 14th of June last, Avhen, on returning home in the evening of 
that day, he was observed to have lost his former gaiety, to look 
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