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proved to be but the precursors of a severe pleuro-pneumonia, at 
that time so prevalent. The horse suffered a good deal ; but about 
the twelfth day experienced a change for the better, and a day or 
two afterwards commenced a course of tonic medicine to recruit 
his lost strength. One morning, a fortnight after the commence- 
ment of tonics, the horse was found halting exceedingly upon the 
off hind leg, the fetlock of which was swollen, and hot, and 
tender to pressure, and gave him so much pain in using it that 
when he was down it was with difficulty he arose upon his legs. 
Some aperient medicine was ordered, and a warm bath, and after- 
wards a bandage wetted with refrigerant lotion. Ten days after 
the appearance of this lameness, the horse was found as suddenly 
and unexpectedly to have become as lame in the near hind leg, 
the off one having become completely restored, and the same 
appearances were visible upon it as had shewn themselves upon 
the former. In another fortnight the horse had become sound 
again, and as soon as his strength permitted him returned to his 
work, and is now in a stable close to my own at work daily, never 
having ailed any thing since. 
B 17, Troop mare, five years old, was taken ill with the same 
disease as Mr. T.’s horse, on the 23d December, 1844, and had 
the disease so sharply that for some days her life was considered 
in danger. On the 28th January, 1845, she being at the time in 
a state of convalescence, she fell lame of the off fore leg, evi- 
dently from rheumatic inflammation of the theca of the flexor 
tendon. Some aperient and diuretic medicine were given her, and 
she had a bandage and cooling lotion ordered for her leg. In 
about ten days afterwards she was found lame in the near hind 
leg, but now from inflammation of the fetlock, and remained so for 
another ten days or so, and then fell lame in the near fore leg. 
On the 1st of June she was admitted into the hospital again on 
account of similar lameness in the near hind leg, thus completing 
the round of all four legs, for which she continued under treatment 
•for three weeks, and was again sent to duty. A week afterwards, 
on the- 26th June, she came back, lame in the same leg, and was 
cured July 4th. A third time she fell lame in the same leg on 
the 12th August last, and went to duty August 18th, since which 
she has remained sound. There was no reason to suspect sprain 
or injury in this mare’s case, from which circumstance, and from 
having had cases similar to her’s, we ascribed the mare’s lameness 
on every occasion to the same (constitutional) cause. 
C 13, troop mare, five years old, was attacked with the pleuro- 
pneumonic epidemic on the 22d January, 1845 ; had the disease 
less severe than the foregoing two, and was discharged on the 
24th February, apparently cured : was admitted again on the 
