FOUNDER AND PNEUMONIA — CANKER, 
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14 th . — This morning she was lying down when 1 entered the 
stable, but rose without difficulty, and is otherwise much im- 
proved. She was kept on a spare laxative diet for four weeks, 
and then resumed her work. 
Founder and Pneumonia. 
A dun fast-trotting phaeton horse, the property of D. Davidson, 
Esq., of Tulloch, was driven eighty miles in two days. Part of 
the road was slippery, and the horse’s shoes were not roughed. 
On the latter part of the journey he was dull, and refused to 
feed. 
On March 18, 1843, I was called in at nine o’clock p.m., 
twenty-fours after his arrival home. I found him standing, 
breathing quickly and laboriously — the pulse 96, and oppressed — 
the feet intensely hot — the metacarpal arteries pulsating strongly 
and the bowels costive. He stood as if fixed to the ground, fre- 
quently breaking into profuse perspiration. 
The shoes were taken off, and I had him bled from the fore 
feet, but found it impossible to keep up the hind feet. I bled 
largely from the neck, blistered the sides, and administered pul. 
digit. 3ij, pot. nit. 3i>j» an t- t ar t* 3j* et a l°* Barb. sj, in a bolus, 
to be repeated in six hours. He was also back-raked, and 
laxative enemata injected. Apply cold poultices to the fore feet, 
and wet bandages behind. 
12 o’clock, p.m. — Venesection 6 lbs. Place a bran-mash on 
the feet, and thin gruel beside him. 
19 th, 6 o’clock, a.m. — Pulse 120 per minute- — feet excessively 
hot, and, from the respiratory murmur it is evident that there is 
effusion in the thorax. My opinion is, that he cannot survive 
many hours. 
8 o’clock , a.m. — Bolus as before, without the aloes. He lin- 
gered in the greatest agony until twelve o’clock at noon, when he 
fell down, and died without a struggle. 
Canker in the Foot of a Horse. 
A draught horse, the property of the Duke of Sutherland, 
at Skelbo farm, received a puncture in the right hind foot, 
from which he became very lame, throwing the weight of his hind 
quarters on the other foot. In two months he recovered in the 
right side, but became dead lame in the left foot. The smith 
examined the foot, and observed that its sole had become high 
or convex. He at once removed a considerable portion of the 
sole in order to evacuate matter, when nothing but blood came 
away. 
