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A CASE OF NEUROTOMY. 
By Mr. G. M. Marshall, York. 
A bay horse, aged, the property of I. Barber, Esq. of this place, 
formerly used as a carriage horse, but that for the last two years 
has been running in the coaches, has been lame for some years on 
the near fore leg, occasionally much lamer than at other times, 
but never sound since the first attack. He always rested the foot 
in the stable. I could find no cause of lameness in the leg, and the 
foot was not altered in structure : it was what is generally called, 
u a fair good foot.” He was fired, and blistered from the knee 
downwards, and had a winter’s run, but came up again without 
any benefit. In January last (at which time he had been about four 
months at work), he became so useless that he was ordered to be 
sold for what he would fetch. As I always thought the cause 
of lameness existed in the foot, I was desirous to try the effect 
of neurotomy on him. Accordingly on the 24th of January I 
had him thrown, and excised about an inch of the nerve on each 
side of the leg, above the fetlock joint. He got up evidently 
much relieved, and in a few days he was perfectly sound. In five 
weeks afterwards he was put to work again in the coaches, has 
remained sound to the present time, and has improved very much 
in condition. 
HYDRO-RACHITIS, WITH SINGULAR SLOWNESS 
OF THE PULSE. 
By Mr. Pope, Tarves , Aberdeenshire. 
I was called, on the 17th of October, 1835, to a horse belonging 
to Mr. Ruxton Hill, of Fiddes, Feveran. When I examined him, 
I found his pulse only 10 in the minute, with that strong bounding 
rattle which made the whole chest shake, so that you could have 
seen it at a distance. The heart at times ceased beating, and the 
horse fell down. Nevertheless he fed pretty well. I told the 
owner that, not being perfectly assured as to the nature of the 
disease, it would be as well for him to call in some other practi- 
tioner whom I might meet in consultation ; however, he would 
not hear of that, but desired me to do what I thought best with 
regard to him. Accordingly, I bled him, gave laxatives every 
second day, inserted a seton behind each ear and a rowel in his 
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