ON WOOD-EVIL AND MOOR-ILL. 
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the disease, with the symptoms he has given us, are at variance 
with what has generally been considered as moor-ill or wood-evil. 
Post-mortem appearances he has given us none ; though we are 
led to suppose that he has had ample opportunities of seeing them. 
He declares it to be distinct from rheumatism, and unattended by 
any constipation or inflammation of an intense character. He de- 
nies the truth of certain causes producing a disease the causes of 
which he does not know himself. He finally solicits “ the aid of any 
well-informed practitioner” to draw a distinction, &c. between 
diseases which every well-informed practitioner would tell him 
does not exist. These and many other contradictory statements 
[ leave to Mr. Cox’s practical experience to reconcile, and to 
draw that distinction which he so ardently desires. I do not wish 
to call his experience into question ; but this I will say, that he 
has failed to support by any practical facts those opinions which 
he promulgated in his former letter. 
I think I may, with more propriety than Mr. Cox asks me 
“ whether the chilling wind of September and October, ex- 
changed for the warm weather of June, July, and August, will 
cure a kind of rheumatism by a mere change of herbage, but 
neither of soil nor of climate?” ask him, Whether it will cure 
what he calls moor-ill or wood-evil ? 
If Mr. Cox will watch more narrowly the probable causes and 
symptoms of this disease, he will be convinced of its being one 
and the same ; that, from whatever cause or causes this or that 
individual may suggest it to arise, he will be satisfied that 
anything that produces obstruction and derangement of the di- 
gestive organs, that affects the skin or lining membrane of the 
nose, trachea, and lungs, may and will produce it; and by a 
careful attention to the climate, soil, food, and water, he will 
often be able to act upon that well-known axiom “ take away 
the cause, and the effects will cease.” 
EXTIRPATION OF TUMOURS ON THE SHOULDERS. 
By Mr. W. C. Spooner, Southampton. 
Some months since, a bay cart mare, belonging to Mr. Smith, 
of this town, that for some years had been accustomed to work 
in a road waggon, was at length rendered useless, in conse- 
quence of four extensive subcutaneous enlargements on the 
shoulders, produced by repeated bruises from the collar, the 
mare being a free worker. In consequence of these enlarge- 
