THE EDINBURGH VETERINARY COLLEGE 
41 
DISEA9E. 
Disease brought forward 
Pleurisy, Pneumonia, and 
Bronchitis 
Strangles 
Spavin, with Lameness 
Splint with ditto 
Skin, Diseases of 
Spine, Injury of. 
Sprains of Tendons, Liga- 
ments, &c 
Tetanus 
Teeth, Diseases of 
Tumours 
Weed (Inflammation of Ab- 
sorbents) 
Wounds and Bruises, ex- 
cepting Feet 
Worms (Intestinal) 
Number of Casks. 
12 39 
7 
8 
1 
4 
1 
14 
3 
11 
1 
4 
17 
1 
2 
242 46 9 
Deaths. 
Horses. Neat Cattle. Do K s. 
2 1 0 
31 
1 
1 
1 
5 32 0 
General Abstract. 
Deaths in Horses 5 
„ Neat Cattle.. 32 
„ Dogs 0 
„ Dromedary.. 1 
Total number 298 Total number 38 
Cured or Relieved 260. Died or Destroyed 38. 
The case of “ disease of bursa” was one of those where great 
enlargement had taken place in both hocks, in a three-years old 
colt, with some degree of stiffness, but without lameness. These 
affections frequently depend on the formation of the hock, and may 
often be termed congenital ; in other cases, they seem to be in- 
timately connected with the kind of pasture on which the colts are 
reared, very hilly pastures being apt to produce them ; in other 
cases still, they seem to arise from some injuries of the lateral liga- 
ments of the hock joint, in consequence of which a slight change in 
the direction of the motion of the articulation seems to take place ; 
but whether they arise from one or other of these causes, the result 
is, that a certain degree of friction, or, perhaps, it should be said, 
unnatural friction, is induced. To alleviate the effects of this an 
increased secretion of synovia takes place within the hock joint 
(and in connexion with it, within the other bursae in its vicinity) 
to allay, as far as possible, the effects of the friction arising from 
VOL. XIX. G 
Cases among Horses 242 
„ Neat Cattle 46 
„ Dogs 9 
||J > Dromedary (Pleuro-pneumonia) 1 
