THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XVIII, No. 216. DECEMBER 1845. New Series, No. 48. 
LAMENESS. 
By W. Percivall, M.R.C.S . 
[Continued from page 547.] 
Inflammation of the Joints in Sucking Foals. 
THERE is a paper in the RECUEIL de MfcDEClNE VetLrinaire 
for March 1828, by a M. Benand, then a veterinary surgeon at 
Boulogne, giving an account of a disease of the joints of foals, con- 
sisting in a sudden attack of inflammation, soon after their dams 
are taken again to plough ; the joints commonly affected being the 
knee and fetlock before, the hock and fetlock behind, and the dis- 
ease in some cases proving fatal. M. Benand ascribes it to some 
change the milk of the dam undergoes through her being taken to 
hard work. “For the first day or two,” says M. Benand, “ there is 
nothing to be seen or felt ; but about the third day both heat and 
tumefaction become apparent. And now the animal is constantly 
lying down, being unable to bear any weight upon its limbs. Loss 
of appetite, fever, and dyspnoea, follow. And although about the 
fourth or fifth day the local inflammatory signs abate, it frequently 
happens that about the sixth da}^ the colt dies from metastasis of 
inflammation either upon the lungs or bowels.” — “ The disease,” 
adds M. Benand, “ evidently originates from the mare. Should 
one of her foals have it, those in succession will rarely escape, un- 
less suckled by a mare free from the contamination.” 
This paper of M. Benand’s, which was transcribed into the first 
volume of The Veterinarian four years afterwards, received 
confirmation from the pen of Mr. Pritchard, veterinary surgeon, 
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