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27th . — Wound better : continue the plaisters. She can now 
trot without lameness. 
30th . — The wound was healed ; but I still continued the boot 
on the leg. 
October 1 6th . — The mare was put into a cart, and drew a load 
of reed to a farmer about two miles distant : she now goes as 
sound as any horse he has, and stands into ploughing, harrow- 
ing, &c. the same as his other horses. 
This mare continued perfectly sound up to the period of her 
death, about four months after: she died of some internal in- 
flammation, what I cannot say, as I did not attend her, the dis- 
tance I reside from the owner being fourteen miles. 
CASE II. 
About the 6th of July, 1836, W. C. Radley, Esq., surgeon, of 
Newton Abbot, requested me to see a mare of his that was lame. 
She is four years old, and has two ring-bones, one on the near 
leg before, and another on the near leg behind. These ring-bones 
began to form when she was twelve months old. She had been 
several times fired and blistered in both legs by a farrier previous 
to my coming here to reside. She was only lame in the near 
leg before, and, having attentively examined her, I was convinced 
that her only lameness was on the outside of the large 'pastern. 
I recommended her to be nerved, to which the owner assented ; 
and, having prepared her for a few days, on the 6th of July I 
performed the operation on the outer side only. The wound soon 
healed, and, a month after, I had the pleasure of seeing her trot 
and gallop, perfectly sound. Mr. Radley rides her when visiting 
his patients, and on all kinds of roads, and says she never 
stumbles, and that he prefers riding her to either of his horses. 
She is a well-bred mare, being out of a good hack mare, and got 
by a thorough-bred stallion. 
CASE III. 
Mr. Petherick, coach proprietor, of Chudleigh, requested me 
on the 22d August, 1836, to see a mare of his that was lame in 
the coffin-joint of the off leg before. On inquiring into the case, 
I was informed that the mare had been lame for six months ; that 
she had been bled in the foot, and had cooling applications ap- 
plied ; that she had been blistered several times, and also fired, 
without receiving the slightest benefit. I thought this would be 
a favourable case, so I recommended this mare to be nerved, to 
which Mr. Petherick readily assented ; as he thought that, if 
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