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some instances, only attached in some parts, but it is likely that 
they have been there only a short time. 
1 have expressed a similar opinion in the first vol. of The 
Veterinarian; and although Mr. Percivall dubs all those 
that are, of a different opinion “ presumptuous dabblers/’ yet 
I cannot bring myself, at present, from the different cases that 
I have seen, to be of his opinion, or, like him, “ boldly assert 
that they are in nowise injurious .” I have no doubt that in a 
short time there will be cases in your Journal to the same effect. 
A SUSPICIOUS CASE OF SUDDEN DEATH. 
By Mr. T. Holford, Northwich. 
On March the 9th, I passed two setons for foot lameness 
through the frogs of the fore feet of a well-bred gelding, the 
property of our highly-esteemed sportsman Sir H. Mainwaring, 
master of the Cheshire hunt. They were dressed with di- 
gestive ointment daily, up to the evening of the 21st, and re- 
newed as often as was necessary. 
In a day or two after the operation suppuration began, and 
a healthy secretion existed until the time of his death, which 
happened on the morning of the 22d. The animal appeared to 
be going on well ; the lameness for which he was operated upon 
had left him, and all doubts of a permanent cure were dissipated. 
On the morning of the 21st, the hounds met at Sandiway 
Head, an inn about three miles and a half from hence. The 
hunting was principally in the neighbourhood of the kennels ; 
and after an hour and a half’s chace in the surrounding forests, 
the fox was killed in a field adjoining the paddock connected 
with that establishment. 
The death happening so near the stables. Sir Harry and I left 
the hounds to inspect the sick horses, several of which were 
labouring under catarrhal fever (a disease that has been for the 
last three months very prevalent in this neighbourhood) ; and 
on our examination, Upton, for that was the horse’s name, came 
under notice. We remained longer in the box with him than 
with any other, conversing about the utility of setons and the 
diminution of this animal’s lameness, &c. He was fed at 
night with his usual allowance of hay, and a mash was given 
him out of the bucket which had contained the same kind of 
food as had been given to the horses that were in the field on 
that day. 
