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Scarcely had a quarter of an hour elapsed before a fresh parox- 
ysm manifested itself. In the course of it, making a violent effort, 
the horse reared himself upon his hind quarters, and, making the 
ground a point d'appui for his head, he threw his entire weight 
upon it. In this singular posture, the head was flexed to that de- 
gree upon the neck that there appeared every reason to dread a 
luxation. Nevertheless, no harm resulted, and, by a second effort 
equally brusque, the animal was on his legs again. Instantly he 
went to take up a point d'appui against the rack, in which attitude 
he continued until night. 
Nov. 5. — From the report made of him during the night, it ap- 
peared the patient had experienced fits of agitation, but that, since 
two o’clock A.M., he had been tranquil. This morning there appeared 
no great difference in him. Let loose out of the stable, he turned 
indifferently to the right or to the left, according as his head was 
inclined on the one side or the other. His step evinced no assur- 
ance. His countenance expressed, in its fixity of regard, uncon- 
sciousness of surrounding objects. And in the stable he is conti- 
nually, as the phrase goes, “ boring with his head.” 
Prescription . — Inhalation of the fumes of ether, 500 grammes 
of sulphate of soda in his water. Laxative lavements. Diet. 
In the absence of any apparatus for the purpose, we were com- 
pelled, in order to carry the prescription of ether into effect, to 
contrive something. A linen bag was procured with a slip-knot 
around its aperture, by which it might be fitted to the muzzle ; and 
in this was placed a large sponge lodged in a wooden bowl, upon 
which ether was poured in sufficient quantity to saturate it. It 
was precisely ten o’clock when the animal’s head was enveloped 
around the muzzle in the ether bag : at a quarter past ten, both 
motion and sensibility had become momentarily annihilated; the 
animal failed at once upon all four legs, and fell to the ground (in 
appearance) a lifeless mass. The aether was administered four 
times afterwards, and the animal in the end recovered. 
Extracts from Domestic Journals. 
Royal Agricultural Society of England. 
Shoeing Horses. — Mr. George Turner, of Barton, near Exeter, 
having presented at the former meeting of the Council a set of 
Mr. Miles’ model hoofs, illustrating the mode of shoeing horses 
advocated in that gentleman’s work on the Foot of the Horse, a 
copy of which Mr. Turner also presented at the same time, an 
