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phoresis in the former, never having seen it so employed under my 
own observation. Did I not see, in one of your back numbers, 
tartarized antimony considered a specific in stercoral colic, — I 
think, by a French veterinarian ? Allow me, however, to add 
the following remark here : — The description Mr. Gloag gives of 
his patient, when turned into the barrack yard, reminds me that I 
have never seen the complaint called the megrims, to which some 
coach horses are subject when running in the face of a hot sun, 
treated of in The Veterinarian. I once saw a troop horse, in 
Ireland, that had received a mortal wound from a ball, describe a 
circle within a circle, precisely as this horse did, until he fell, 
with the exception of his ejecting blood from his nostrils at every 
act of expiration. It was somewhat of an awful sight. 
Page 256. — I speak with diffidence, but it appears to me that 
the theory of thorough-pins and windgalls, and the general de- 
velopment of them, is very ably stated by M. Leblanc. I never 
had a horse lame from windgalls, and not many that were quite 
free from them, after a certain age ; nor do I recollect having a 
horse stopped in his work from thorough-pins, although I had 
three in which they were apparent. Most old hunters, and 
especially such as have carried high weights, have them to a cer- 
tain extent. Recent windgalls will, I believe, as M. Leblanc 
states, yield to “ lotions, compression, and cold ;” but it is loss of 
time — and here I speak from experience, for I have worked hard 
at this game — to apply them, or any thing else but an operation, 
either by fire or seton, when of any long standing. I never could 
do any thing with them by blisters ; but I like the method pro- 
posed by M. Leblanc, of puncturing with the hot iron. At all 
events, it reads well. 
M. Leblanc says, the manner of the formation of windgalls and 
thorough-pins is not clearly understood, and proceeds to a recapi- 
tulation of the causes of them. He is in favour of a distention of 
the envelopes of the synovial cavities, and doubts primary inflam- 
mation, &c. I will give him an instance, which is in his favour; 
it has been related by me before, when describing Lord Egre- 
mont’s racing stud. I saw five yearlings in the stable of “ Old 
Brown” (as he is called), the trainer, of Lewes. They were just 
broke, and, of course, doing very gentle work. On seeing one of 
them, a filly, with both fore-legs in bandages, I naturally in- 
quired the cause. “ Why,” said Mr. Brown, “this is a very 
curious case. That filly was quite well and perfect when I shut 
her up ( for the first time) last night, at nine o’clock, in a box. 
When I came to her this morning, I found her with thumping 
windgalls on both her fore-legs, produced by her pawing the 
ground with her feet, from being uneasy at being by herself” 
