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cle, and placed the clams as near as possible to the inguinal ring, 
conformably to the plan usually adopted in cases of this nature. 
His success was complete, and a radical cure was effected. 
M. Eleouet, who addressed several communications to you last 
year, is a very distinguished veterinary surgeon, whose zeal and 
abilities are well worthy the attention of the society. Your com- 
mittee recommend that a silver medal should be awarded to him. 
[To be continued.] 
CASES OF VERTIGO IN THE HORSE. 
By Mr. Jos. Woodger, Paddington. 
On December 2, 1840, I was desired to attend two mares, be- 
longing to Mr. Carpenter, that were attacked by the prevailing 
epidemic. The symptoms were, loss of appetite — defluxion from 
the eyes, the lids of which became rapidly swollen — drooping of 
the head — frequent shifting of the limbs, and the pulse weak and 
quick, and ranging from 60 to 70. 
I gave a drink composed of spirit of nitrous ether, nitre, and 
emetic tartar, and repeated it in the evening. This I continued 
until the 6th, when the urgent symptoms had subsided, and the 
horses were sent to the owner’s farm, with orders to give them 
scalded oats and bran, and balls composed of gentian and ginger. 
They appeared to be going on well until the 12th, when the 
owner had them taken up to go to work. They were put into 
the stable, and fed the same as the other horses. 
On the 13th, at seven o’clock in the evening, I was sent for 
in great haste, the messenger telling me that one of them was in 
a fit. When I arrived there the mare was standing, but appa- 
rently unconscious of surrounding objects. I went to her head, 
and, putting my fingers under the maxillary bone in order to feel 
the pulse, she suddenly fell on her side. She got up, however, 
without any assistance in a few minutes. I cautiously approached 
her a second time, and found the pulse 50, and full. I bled her 
to the amount of six quarts, and gave her three drachms of aloes. 
On the next day she was apparently well ; but, on the noon of 
that day, the other was attacked in the same way. The treat- 
ment was the same, and accompanied by the same result. 
The owner asked my opinion as to the cause of these sudden 
and violent attacks. I told him that it was the too highly stimu- 
lating food and over-distended stomach, and that the functions of 
