INFLAMMATION OF THE JOINTS— MOOSE DEER. 27 
the 3d 1833, he was apparently labouring under phthisis, and was 
exceedingly reduced; and that on April the 22d in the following 
year he relapsed, and continued ill, sometimes better and sometimes 
worse, until the end of June, and was saved only by the long- 
continued exhibition of the hydriodate of potash, will he con- 
clude that this was a continuance of the scrofulous affection, a 
metastasis of this peculiar inflammation, or tendency to inflam- 
mation ? On each of the three years the disease appeared when 
the horns were sprouting. On each of the two first years, however, 
they continued, although slowly, to grow, and at length reached 
their usual size ; but this year they grew not at all from the 
commencement of the illness. The influence of this on an inflam- 
matory disease will be easily appreciated. It speaks much for 
the power of the hydriodate of potash, that not a single tubercle 
was found in either lung The dose had been increased to 
twenty-four grains daily. I regret that the power of the iodine 
had not been put to the test in these affections of the joints ; but 
the total cessation of the growth of the horns shewed so much 
constitutional derangement, that, probably, all medicine would 
have been ineffectual. 
TWO CASES OF TENESMUS AND PROTRUSION OF 
THE RECTUM. 
By Mr . Joseph Clayworth, Spilsby. 
It is only within the last four months that I have become a 
reader ofTHE Veterinarian ; and I am free to confess that the 
practical information I have already received from reading it is 
far more than I could have imagined to be possible. Feeling a 
wish to contribute somewhat to the advancement of the veteri- 
nary art, I have sent two cases for insertion, simple in their na- 
ture, but which may not be quite unuseful. 
CASE I. 
I was attending, for a disease of the jaw bone, a three-year- 
old bay colt, of the nag kind, belonging to Mr. S. Tusting, of 
East Ville. Some time had elapsed since I last saw him, and 
I visited him on the 11th of last April, and found him purging, 
greatly debilitated, and the rectum protruded full ten inches, and 
as large as a child’s head, with several sloughing patches on its 
mucous coat varying from the size of a sixpence to a crown 
piece. His general health did not seem to be so materially af- 
fected as I should have thought it would have been from so un- 
