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A FATAL CASE OF LAMINITIS CAUSED BY THE 
ANIMAL’S VIOLENTLY KICKING AGAINST A 
WALL IN THE STABLE. 
By W. T. Stanley, M.R.C.V.S., Leamington. 
The patient was a very valuable grey mare, the property 
of a gentleman in this town, which I was requested to attend 
in great haste, in the summer of 1854. On my arrival, I 
found her in excessive pain ; profuse perspiration covered 
the body, the pulse beating as quick as it could, and the res- 
piration sympathising with the pulse. She stood in a fixed 
position, and was unable to move. I learnt, upon inquiry, 
that she was left well on the previous night, and had eaten all 
her food, but that during the night she had kicked so violently 
as to break a fourteen-inch wall completely through. I soon 
perceived that the laminae of the hind feet had received very 
serious injury. As she bore scarcely any weight on the feet, 
it was impossible to get her shoes off; 1 consequently had 
her cast. After bleeding her, and giving some aperient 
medicine, I left her. The subsequent treatment consisted 
of a repetition of the bloodletting, both local and constitu- 
tional, with the constant use of fomentations, night and day, 
still with no abatement whatever of the pain ; indeed, so 
rapid was the progress of the disease, and so acute the 
sufferings of the animal, that I was obliged to have her 
destroyed on the third day. Both hoofs had nearly sloughed 
off, from mortification of the laminae. The fibrous tissue 
appeared to me to have been ruptured, from the kicking; 
and an effusion of blood showed itself at the coronary 
attachment the morning following the injury. I therefore 
from the first anticipated an unfavorable termination of the 
case, and gave my opinion in accordance. 
CASE OF CHOKING MISTAKEN FOR INFLUENZA. 
By the Same. 
I was requested to attend a valuable hunter, the property 
of a sporting gentleman, living some miles distant from this 
town, and which, I was informed by the groom, was seriously 
ill, and had been so for two days. Further, that the throat 
