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CRAMP IN A HORSE. 
By M. G. Conte. 
On the 26th of February, 1838, I was required to take charge 
of a horse. He apparently was of a strong constitution, but 
suddenly became lame on the right leg behind. In fact, he was 
almost immoveable. His muscles were strongly contracted, pro- 
minent, and hard. The articulation of the fetlock joint could alone 
be moved. There was very considerable sensibility in the skin. 
The causes of this were unknown, except that there appeared to 
be a periodical return of the affection. The proprietor assured me 
that a twelvemonth before — six months after the purchase of the 
animal — there was a similar attack of cramp, which yielded to an 
irritant treatment, — the use of the oil of turpentine. It was, how- 
ever, nearly forty days before the animal was cured. 
I could not well mistake the affair. It was an attack of cramp, 
and not of palsy, as a medical man had announced. In fact, the 
roughness of the limb, the hardness of the muscles, and the extreme 
sensibility of the skin, differed from the cramp, which the other 
affection indicated. 
ON HOMOEOPATHY. 
[The following articles are translated from the “ Archives Ho- 
mceopathiques de Paris,” vol. v, 1836. They are from the pen 
of Mons. Merson, Capitaine Instructeur in the tenth regiment 
of cuirassiers, and appeared in the “Journal des Haras et 
des Chasses” vol. xvii, 1836, under the authority of the veteri- 
nary surgeons attached to the infirmaries at which the experi- 
ments were made.] 
Extracted from the “ Journal des Haras et des Chasses” ( of Racing 
and Hunting ), 1836. 
HOMOEOPATHIC TREATMENT OF GLANDERS AND FARCY. 
Though personal considerations have hindered me from laying 
before the readers of the Journal des Haras the successful re- 
sults obtained during the last eighteen months in the homoeopathic 
treatment of glanders and farcy, by Mons. Leblanc, chief veteri- 
nary surgeon in the tenth regiment of Cuirassiers, a sense of duty 
