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navicular joint diseased. I have found it in groggy feet with con- 
traction, and also to the same extent in good-looking open feet. 
It must appear strange that such a formidable disease as this 
should so long have escaped detection, and, particularly, as the 
foot of the horse has been a subject of so much investigation. I 
can only say, that in my own dissection was the first time I ever 
saw the disease ; that I never heard of it, and that I never was 
taught it. If some practitioners have occasionally met with in- 
stances, it appears they have been put by, as cases of rare occur- 
rence. The unfortunate animal is suffering perpetual pain from 
these delicate surfaces coming in contact, which were never in- 
tended by Nature to have touched each other. By the loss of the 
synovia at this important part these highly sensible surfaces are 
not only in contact, but, when the animal is in action, they are ac- 
tually rubbing against each other ; and, to make his misery the 
more complete, they happen to be immediately under the centre of 
his weight. 
James Turner, 
Veterinary Surgeon, Croydon. 
THE SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION OF BELLADONNA 
TO THE OS UTERI IN CASES OF PROTRACTED 
PARTURITION. 
By Mr. John YounghusbAND, Grey stoke, Cumberland. 
In one of my professional excursions (in the beginning of the 
new year), I met with a medical acquaintance, an M.D. ; and in 
the course of our conversation a discourse took place regarding the 
medical effects of the extract of belladonna, which arose from my 
accidentally saying that I considered it both an useful and dan- 
gerous therapeutic agent, according as its action was well or ill 
understood. And in the course of the conversation it brought to 
my recollection two cases of parturition, in which, according to my 
opinion, I used it with the most beneficial effects. 
The first case was that of a fine four-year-old heifer, of the long 
horned breed, which had gone the regular time of utero-gestation, 
by outward appearances was well prepared, had severe labour- 
pains for a good while, yet was there no appearance of her burden 
quitting her. 
