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the metropolitan veterinary authorities who are actively 
engaged in practice. And as to British veterinary authors, 
ancient or modern, I look in vain even for a mention of it. 
Let it be remembered that this is a disease of the fore-legs 
(although the hinder ones do not always escape it), and that, 
therefore, it is of great importance. 
To obviate the recurrence of professional contradictions in 
this affection, I do most earnestly hope that in future our 
London veterinary surgeons, besides continuing so assiduous 
in applying their remedial measures for this malady, will 
unhesitatingly admit that it has a name, and that our veterinary 
nomenclature is incomplete without its introduction. 1 feel 
assured that such a decision would be satisfactory to our pro- 
vincial brethren, and that by them it would be extensively 
promulgated. 
Sesamoiditis is essentially a disease of wear and tear — 
violence received in a variety of ways. The subjects of it are 
the colt, whether of the light or the heavy breed, when under- 
going the exertion of breaking, likewise the fast or the slow 7 
animal of matured age, but especially the race-horse, the 
hunter, the fast trotter, and the charger, while even the cart- 
horse is not exempt from it. 
It is an evil seriously affecting the interests of the owners 
of all fast going horses, as it is liable to occur in a moment, 
and w r hen the least expected. I, however, must leave the 
details for another, and I hope early paper, on this important 
subject. 
THE GASES CONTAINED IN THE INTESTINES 
OF THE HORSE. 
By Wm. Camps, M.D, 
The following remarks on the presence of the gases exist- 
ing in the various parts of the intestinal canal of horses have 
appeared in some of the journals published in our own 
country, and on the Continent, that are especially devoted to 
physiological and pathological science. These refer to certain 
experiments of Valentin, a German physiologist, who has 
examined the gases that he found to be present in the intes- 
tines of the horse. The animals on wLich he experimented 
were killed by bleeding. Separate portions of the intestinal 
canal were isolated by double ligatures, and the gases col- 
lected immediately after death. His experiments were made 
upon two animals. 
