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“ quidding” and palsy of the upper lip. 
June 4.th . — I this day saw her grazing in the field, which was 
strewed with quids, yet I did not think she was quite so bad as at 
first. On standing in the field to observe her eating, I ascertained 
that her upper lip was drawn a little on the near side, and I thought 
the muscles of the cheek and upper lip on the off side were par- 
tially or entirely palsied, as the lip, at the corner of the mouth, 
hung down more than on the other side, thus disabling her from 
masticating, or, at any rate, from drawing her food between the molar 
teeth or into the pharynx. I fancied this loss of power might have 
been caused by the sharp edges of the teeth passing against and 
injuring, in some way or other, the muscles of the cheek, &c., and 
that rasping might ultimately cure it. 
On the 8th June I went over and cast her, so as to examine her 
mouth more minutely ; but I could not detect any tooth projecting 
out against the sides, or increased in length so as to be injurious ; 
I therefore merely repeated the rasping. 
\lth . — Called to see her. Saw her in the field grazing, and 
found her upper lip still drawn to the near side and quidding a 
little, but she was decidedly better. To be left to nature for 
awhile. I was afterwards informed that, when she was first observed, 
she would put her nose, when she wanted to drink, deep into the 
bucket, and that, when corn was placed before her, she would lay 
hold of it forcibly with her teeth, and take a mouthful ; in doing 
which she did not appear to gather it up with her lips as usual, 
and by a casual observer it would not have been seen. 
January 4, 1845. — I saw Mr. Vernon to-day, who informed 
me that after I had left off attending her, although she was much 
better, she still was not well ; and that, soon after, his brother, who 
is a surgeon, paid him a visit, and advised him to blister her on 
the cheek and throat of that side, which he did several times, and 
she got better. I advised him afterwards to repeat it, and she is 
now perfectly well, and has been so for many months. 
A butcher in this town had an old horse that could not draw his 
tongue into his mouth. He could scarcely eat enough to keep him 
alive. He had him for a short time only, and nothing was done 
to him. 
FRACTURE OF A HORSE'S SKULL BY A FALL. 
By the same. 
On the 5th August, 1845, I was sent for to a blacksmith's shop 
in Whitchurch, to see a half-bred four-years-old colt belonging to 
John Vernon, Esq., of Tushingham, that had fallen down and in- 
jured his head. 
