VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XXX, adt>tt i qk >7 Fourth Series, 
No. 352. ArKlLi, No. 28. 
Communications and Cases. 
SOFTENING AND RUPTURE OF THE LEFT 
KIDNEY, ASSOCIATED WITH CALCAREOUS 
DEPOSIT IN THE PELVIS AND URETER OF 
THE RIGHT. 
By Charles Dickens, M.R.C.V.S., Kimbolton. 
My patient, an aged, entire horse of the Suffolk breed, 
called “ Boxer,” which, about ten years since, the late 
Duke of Manchester gave Mr. Catlin, of Butley Abbey, 
Suffolk, the large sum of 300 guineas for, was the sire of that 
gentleman’s celebrated horse “ Duke,” which obtained the 
Royal Agricultural Society’s prize, as also many others, and 
was considered by competent judges to be the best horse of 
his class in the kingdom. Besides working on the farm, Boxer 
was annually used for covering, and a very healthy animal he 
always appeared to be until about the middle of January last, 
when it was reported to me that he was unable to stand; and 
on an examination, I found that this incapacity was chiefly 
caused by want of power in his posterior extremities. The 
general surface of his body was warm, but the visible mem- 
branes were pale. The pulse varied from 40 to 50, and was 
likewise tremulous. A slight amount of oedema could be 
felt about the loins and haunches, and more particularly so 
on the left side. These symptoms, however, were looked 
upon as denoting rather a general break up of the constitution 
than anything else. 
With some little difficulty he was got upon his legs, after 
which he was enabled to keep up for a few hours ; but it was 
thought prudent to place him in slings, and he managed to walk 
to them a distance of a few yards. As his appetite was good he 
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