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CASE OF GASTRITIS, PERITONITIS, &C. 
present of a horse which, setting his lameness aside, bore a high 
name and value. His pedigree was — “ got by Whisker out of 
Castrella,” and consequently he was “ own brother to Memnon,” 
who had run second for the gold cup at Ascot. Indeed, it was 
this affair which led Chifney, then the owner of Memnon, to depart 
in haste from the course to purchase the subject of the present 
narrative at the extraordinary price of £1400; though, as soon as 
he discovered his fresh purchase had no run in him, he was glad 
to sell him for a charger at the reduced value of £200. At the 
time he came into my possession the horse was dead lame, 
and incurably so, in the near fore foot, from navicularthritis ; for 
which, although he had been treated at several separate periods, 
and as often relieved, yet, so invariably did the lameness on work 
return, that he would now, but for my intercession, have been 
destroyed. July 1837, his lame foot was operated on. He arose, 
and immediately went perfectly sound, and for two years after, in 
my possession, continued so ; the use I made of him being a hack 
about town. His former master also rode him after the operation, 
and declared him to be as perfect in his action and performances 
as he had ever been in his palmy days. What I continually 
remarked myself in riding him was, that, being much in the habit 
of changing his legs in cantering, he would quite as often lead off 
with the near foot (the one he had been so long and painfully 
lame upon) as with its fellow. 
CASE OF GASTRITIS, PERITONITIS, AND INFLAMED 
JUGULAR VEINS. 
By John Tombs, V.S., Stratford-on-Avon. 
Oct. ls£, 1847, I was requested to attend a grey cart colt, 
3 years old, belonging to a gentleman four miles hence. At 6 P.M. 
I saw him, and was informed he had been taken ill in the morn- 
ing, about 9 A.M., when at plough. According to the wagoner’s 
account he ate his breakfast well, but of that there are considerable 
doubts. He lay down in the team, and was taken home imme- 
diately, and bled profusely ; had ol. terebinth, and tine, opii 
given him ; and the dose had been repeated, as well as the vene- 
section, previous to my seeing him. The symptoms • manifest to 
me were — cringing, lying down, rolling on his back, which posi- 
tion he would maintain for a few minutes ; then getting up and 
looking back at his side, with a peculiar dejected countenance : all 
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