684 
THE EDINBURGH VETERINARY COLLEGE 
Disease. 
Disease brought forward 
Number of Cases. 
Horses. Neat Cattle. Dogs. 
161 25 9 
Deaths. 
Horses. NeatCattle. Dogs. 
5 2 1 
Phlebitis 
2 
• • • 
Phrenitis 
1 
... 
... 
Pleurisy, Pneumonia, and 
Bronchitis 
6 
2 
Rheumatism 
2 
• • • 
• • • 
Scirrhous Mamma and Ya- 
gina 
2 
Strangles 
2 
... 
Spavin with Lameness 
4 
. . . 
Splint with ditto 
2 
... 
Skin, Diseases of 
3 
... 
1 
Spine, Injury of. 
1 
... 
1 
Synovial Cavities, opened 
1 
... 
... 
Tendons, &c., Sprains of... 
12 
... 
Tetanus 
2 
... 
2 
Teeth, Diseases of 
10 
• • • 
• • • 
Weed 
1 
• • • 
... 
Worms 
1 
• • • 
1 
... 
Wounds and Bruises, ex- 
cept Feet 
17 
1 
1 
... 
228 
27 
13 
10 
2 1 
General Abstract. 
Cases among Horses 228 
„ Neat Cattle 27 
„ , _ Dogs 13 
*-.g.S . Mammitis 1 
s§|| > Epilepsy 1 
u.||“ J 17 Castrated cases 1 
Deaths in 
»> 
Horses 
Cattle . 
Dogs .. 
Pigs j 
Total number 271 Total number. 
Cured or Relieved 257. Died or Destroyed 14. 
10 
2 
1 
1 
14 
During the past month the ordinary character of the cases has 
been that which presents itself in the common routine of the prac- 
tice here ; there are, however, some which may deserve a few 
especial remarks. 
The case of fracture of the tibia occurred in a coach-horse, 
which had received a kick from another horse on the inside of 
the tibia of the near hind leg, which caused him to go slightly lame, 
but not to such an extent as to lay him off work, or to induce those 
having charge of him to ask advice or to put him under treatment. 
On the 13th of October, however, a day or two after receiving the 
injury, while working in the mail-coach to Tranent, the leg sud- 
denly gave way, and the horse had to be destroyed. On examin- 
ing the tibia, it was found to be fractured in an oblique direction 
to the extent of eleven inches, reaching from the superior extremity 
