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in connexion with the external presence of few or many melanoid. 
bodies — little good can be expected from medical treatment, our 
present knowledge of this subject being so limited. We should, 
I apprehend, endeavour to rouse the powers of life, to increase the 
tone and restore the healthy action of the capillaries, and to pro- 
mote the action of the liver, glandular and digestive functions. 
For this purpose the vegetable and mineral tonics, the chlorides, 
and probably iodine, are worthy attention. 
A free excision of all the diseased mass , where it can be done, 
is the only means of cure, and this will in some instances only 
afford a temporary relief. The deposition will probably still go on 
in some part or other of the body, and ultimately be the cause of 
death. There are, however, some instances of the successful re- 
moval of large melanoid bodies recorded, both by English and 
foreign practitioners. 
Setons, blisters, and irritants, if applied to the tumours, will be 
found productive, I believe, of mischief, and likely to create ma- 
lignant inflammatory action, followed, perhaps, by a softening, ul- 
ceration, and rapid extension in bodies, which, if not interfered with, 
might have remained in their stationary and insensitive condition 
for an indefinite period. 
[To be continued.] 
PARTURITION CASES. 
By W. A. Cartwright, M.R.C. V.S., Whitchurch , Salop. 
Death of Pantalonade (Dam of Harriott) from 
Foaling. 
On the 12th of February 1850 I was sent for by Mr. Harry 
Wadlow, the celebrated trainer, who resides at Aston, near Shiff- 
nal, in this county, to see a very valuable thorough-bred mare, 
called “ Pantalonade,” who was in labour; from whom his attend- 
ants could not extract the foal, on account of its being a false pre- 
sentation, viz., the head and one fore-leg lying back. The distance 
from my residence was about thirty miles. I arrived there in 
three hours, at nine P.M. ; but on getting there I found, as I almost 
expected, she had foaled. The foal was dead. 
Particulars. — This mare was thought not to be very well on the 
10th inst., as she was wandering about the paddock, and getting 
by herself, as if for slipping her foal, her time not being up by 
about six weeks. On the 11th she was more uneasy. On the 
