THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XIX, No. 217. JANUARY 1846. New Series, No. 49. 
EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF DISEASE IN THE 
HEART OF A HORSE. 
( Condylomatous Sarcoma of the Valves.) 
By William Percivall, M.R.C.S., Veterinary Surgeon , First 
Life Guards. 
THE subject of this extraordinary — if not unique — case in vete- 
rinary medicine, was a black mare, three years old, purchased of 
Mr. Dyson, for the service of the First Life Guards, on the 20th 
of April of the present year, and immediately after purchase, on 
account of her age, turned, along with others of her own class, into 
straw-yard, from which, on the L7th of May, she was taken 
into the stable for shewing symptoms of the influenza at that 
time prevalent among the young horses of the regiment. Her 
influenza, however, took a favourable turn, and terminated in 
strangles, during her convalescence from which, being a remark- 
ably high-spirited mare, and shy about her head, it was with some 
difficulty that her throat could be got to be dressed. On the 28th of 
May she was again turned into straw-yard, quite well, and there 
remained, for aught any body knew or saw to the contrary, in 
good health up to the time she was removed into her own stable 
for the purpose of being broke in for the ranks. This was on the 
18th of August, and she then had a four-year-old mouth. In the 
beginning of September she commenced her longeing lessons. In 
the very first one she took, however, on the 4th of the month, it was 
evident to the riding-master while she was running in the longe, 
that, seemingly from “ weakness” in her hocks, she could not go 
through her school- work without giving way; it was therefore 
deemed prudent to still defer her breaking in, and, that she might 
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