444 SAVIN CAUSING THE DEATH OF A HORSE. 
Picis Comp, cum Sulphur, then with a dilute solution of Acid. 
Sulph., but nothing did any good. The hens were removed, 
and her skin, also, soon became healthy. There were fourteen 
horses standing in the same stable, and it is singular that this 
mare was the only one affected. I could not in either of the 
cases detect any parasites on the animals in the daytime. 
[A similar case to the above has been communicated to us 
by Mr. Henry Taylor, of Hull. u The horses stood in a 
stable, over which was a hen-roost, and from this not being 
properly floored, the dirt fell upon the animals 5 backs. The 
irritation of the skin was intense, and the horses were nearly 
denuded of hair from rubbing themselves. 55 Mr. Taylor, 
some few weeks after the occurrence, forwarded to us some of 
the “ droppings 55 from the roost, but we w r ere unable to 
satisfy ourselves as to whether the cutaneous disease was 
caused by the parasites which affect or truly belong to poultry, 
or by the acari which frequently abound in dirty places, 
whether inhabited or not by these birds. From the fact 
observed by the coachman, in the case recorded by Mr. 
Moon, it would appear that the dirt acarus was the cause of 
the mischief. This point, however, is doubtful, and we hope 
to be able hereafter to throw some light upon it.] 
SAVIN CAUSING THE DEATH OF A HORSE. 
By Edwin Taylor, M.R.C.V.S., Bury St. Edmunds. 
My dear Sirs, — Since you have undertaken the editor- 
ship of the Veterinarian , nothing has happened of interest 
sufficiently great to enable me to add my mite to its pages ; 
but I have great pleasure now in doing so. One motive for 
my sending you this case is, that in all the veterinary works 
I have, and they go back for many years, I can find scarcely 
any similar cases recorded. I need not refer to those in the last 
number of your Journal. And, secondly, to prevent, if it be 
possible, the frequent practice among horsekeepers of giving 
the agent to their master’s horses, which they do with the 
idea of getting them into condition. 
The case is this. Last Thursday, June 14th, whilst 
driving through the parish of Bradfield, about five miles 
from Bury, I was stopped by Mr. Chickall, a farmer, who 
informed me that he had lost a horse very suddenly the night 
before. The history he gave me was as follows: the animal 
