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applied to take out what they consider the soreness (a term 
embodying the same idea as soreness or stiffness of muscle from 
unusual or long-continued exertion), while the specific and de- 
structive peculiarity of the disease is unknown and unattended 
to, and the loss of the animal as a race-horse is in too many in- 
stances the consequence. In the specimen now sent # , you will 
observe that the tendon in every extension of the fore leg had to 
pass over a substance about equal in smoothness to a nutmeg- 
grater ; and, viewing this, you will not wonder at the observation 
of Mr. Atcherley, that, “ in these circumstances, perfect exten- 
sion of the limb is rendered almost impossible, and the slightest 
attempt in progression extremely painful.” 
Perhaps I need not apologize to your readers for again bring- 
ing the subject of Mr. Atcherley’s paper before them ; there is 
an importance in it that deserves the consideration of every one 
connected with the management of the race-horse ; and though in 
an original article I might have said more, yet there is so much 
explicitness and proof of professional acquaintance with the sub- 
ject in his paper, and I so fully concur in the views he has taken 
of it, that I should be quite satisfied with this attempt should it 
induce a re-perusal of that article. 
ON THE TOBACCO ENEMA. 
By Mr. Thomas Small, Veterinary Establishment , Newry. 
Gentlemen, — I read with much pleasure and interest Mr. 
Percivall’s communication, in your last number, on the salutary 
effects of the tobacco smoke enema, as it is a remedy which I 
have long held in high estimation. I first saw it used in India, 
as a means of restoring the drowned ; and, in my own practice, 
I have known one case of tetanus (idiopathic), one of stomach 
staggers, and a host of cases of colic, recover, in which the to- 
bacco enema was the principal remedy employed. 
Mr. Percivall says truly, that ‘‘there are many among us who 
doubt the efficacy of the tobacco clyster.” Many practitioners 
of my acquaintance are prejudiced against it, and cannot be 
prevailed on even to try it. My senior brother for many years 
treated it with the greatest contempt, without ever giving it a 
trial ; but now, in his practice, he seldom uses any other clyster 
than the tobacco. 
* We hope to be able to present our readers with a drawing of the spe- 
cimen in our next number. 
