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and the integument that covered them was very abundant. Two 
setons were placed in the thighs of this horse, and a third on the 
breast, and poultices and emollient lotions were applied to all 
four limbs. When the suppuration of the setons was established, 
we endeavoured to recal the integument to its natural state by 
the application of the actual cautery. 
The horse being cast, the grapy excrescences were reduced, on 
the posterior left leg, to a level with the surface of the skin, and 
the place where they had grown was cauterized several times 
with the point of the iron. Being fearful of punishing the patient 
too much, and thus leading to some serious metastasis by too 
abrupt a suppression of the secretion of the other three limbs, 
we postponed the cauterization of them to another time, ordering 
that linseed meal Goulard lotion should be applied on their sur- 
face. 
At the end of several days the secretion of the two setons sud- 
denly stopped. The tail, that had been fixed to a loose string 
on one side in order to prevent it from striking on the orifices of 
the setons, became the seat of a gangrenous swelling, which 
propagated itself on the croup. All the phenomena of the 
general infection soon manifested themselves, and the animal 
died. 
Examination after death brought to view all the lesions of a 
general gangrene. 
RODWAY’S PATENT HORSESHOE. 
(Second Notice.) 
Our first notice of this shoe amounted to little more than an 
analytical review of the Prospectus through which it was recom- 
mended to our attention ; a production we deemed at the time, 
and now feel no hesitation in pronouncing to be, pregnant with 
statements laudatory of the shoe incapable of practical demon- 
stration. We argued then, from the nature of the horse’s foot 
and the simple difference there existed between the patented 
and the common shoes, that it was quite impossible such bene- 
fits could accrue as were vaunted in the Prospectus ; and since 
we have had time and opportunity afforded us for giving the 
shoe a trial, we have come to the conclusion that, without deny- 
ing it possesses some advantages, the patented shoe must, 
sooner or later, be withdrawn from the forge, to be laid where 
its prototype has for upwards of twenty years enjoyed undisturbed 
repose, — viz. upon a shelf in the veterinarian’s museum, or in the 
cabinet of some amateur-collector of such like curiosities. 
