506 A SINGULAR CASE OF DISEASE OF THE LUNGS. 
Having succeeded in a number of cases by the employment of 
the antiphlogistic or sedative treatment without the use of opium 
at all, and having thus imbibed a high opinion of the superiority 
of this plan, which is founded on the presumption that tetanus is a 
kind of cerebro-spinalitis, I beg you will excuse this tedious at- 
tempt at an exposition of those views, and, if admissible, give it 
a place in your highly useful Journal. 
J. Relph. 
A SINGULAR CASE OF DISEASE OF THE LUNGS. 
By George Waters, M. R. C. V. S. 
Gentlemen, — May I beg of you to insert the following case in 
your valuable Periodical, which came under my observation a short 
time ago ; and which I think may not prove uninteresting to some 
of your numerous readers, on account of its singularity. 
Mr. A., of this town, turned his bay chaise-mare into a large 
loose box with a yard attached to it, belonging to a friend of his, 
seven miles from Cambridge, for the purpose of giving her two or 
three months’ rest. When about half this time had expired, she 
was noticed by the steward to be slightly lame in the near hind 
foot. He examined it, and, seeing a discharge from the cleft of the 
frog, supposed thrush to be the cause of the limping, and dressed it 
during three or four days with a mixture of tar and salt; but, by this 
time, the mare had become so dreadfully lame, that they thought 
it advisable to acquaint Mr. A. of the circumstance, who imme- 
diately applied to me, and requested my attendance upon her. 
I found the mare with the toe of the affected foot resting lightly 
on the ground, the heel swollen and very painful, with an ooz- 
ing of foetid pus from the frog. Finding that the horny frog and 
sole, towards the heels, had separated from their corresponding 
villi, I removed them carefully with my drawing-knife, and applied 
pledgets of tow, soaked with a weak astringent, to the parts — en- 
veloped the whole foot and pastern in a warm bran poultice — gave 
a laxative — and left her for the night. 
On the following day I found the swelling had increased in size 
at the heel, and the leg on the inner side above the fetlock was 
considerably enlarged. The parts were ordered to be dressed with 
lead lotion several times in the course of the day, and a fresh 
poultice applied to the foot. 
3d day . — I found the skin at the heel had ulcerated in several 
places, and a dark sanious pus was oozing from it. The disease in 
