A CASE OF ACUTE FOUNDER IN BOTH FORK FEET. 0=3 
between and about the ruptured cells, and that was becoming 
hard and carcinomatous, many of the cells remaining open; tu- 
berculated knots of a harder character occupied the place of 
other cells. Th e hepatized portion was filled with tubercles, scarcely 
any of which were suppurating. This was a plain and interest- 
ing case of phthisis, yet not terminating in the usual way, in the 
formation of vomicae : no intense inflammation exhibited any- 
where, but the animal destroyed by the irritation and exhaustion 
occasioned by the overworking of the little portion of lung that 
remained for the purpose of breathing. It is an interesting and 
instructive case. It well exhibits the power of the hydriodate 
of potash over tuberculated lungs. This animal was thrice re- 
covered from the brink of death ; but either we did not continue 
the medicine sufficiently long after the recognizable symptoms 
of phthisis had disappeared, or there really is an obstinacy in this 
malady which says to every medicament, “ hitherto mayest thou 
go, but no farther.” 
On the next animal that can be cheated when labouring under 
this complaint, the full power of the hydriodate shall be tried ; 
nothing but an appalling emaciation in the patient shall suspend 
its exhibition. Although this animal was much wasted with- 
out, there was a considerable reservoir of nutriment within. 
The spine was not so much diseased as I expected. There 
was a slight curvature at the dorso-lumbar region, and an en- 
largement of the bodies of the vertebras ; accounting for the par- 
tial paralysis, but not necessarily, or probably, having much to 
do with the essential disease. 
A CASE OF ACUTE FOUNDER IN BOTH FORE FEET. 
By Mr. George Cleland, Rosewell, Mid- Lothian, N.B. 
On the 2d of August, 1831, I was called on to attend a black 
mare, of great value, that had been ill for about three weeks, the 
property of Sir John Hay, Bart. I found her pulse above 70 
per minute, and her breathing was very laborious. Both soles 
of her fore feet were burst, and there was an oozing from the 
coronets. I was informed that she had been bled often, and 
poultices applied to her feet: her body was all covered with 
sores, particularly about her elbow, occasioned by striking with 
her hind feet ; her head and hock joints were also much cut and 
bruised. I dressed these parts with a mixture of oil -and tine, 
benzoin, made into a liniment with Armenian bole, in order to 
keep off the flies. 
