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usually shipped without a medical attendant ? I am fur- 
thermore aware of the fact, that one valuable horse, said to 
have been purchased as a charger for Sir C; Campbell, was 
taken suddenly ill and died, having been treated by a quack 
of this city ; and although nothing in the shape of ill treatment 
could be laid to the charge of the party consulted, yet one 
would have supposed that a person in Colonel Robbins’s posi- 
tion would have differently estimated the profession. This 
may appear a trifling subject for a voyage of sixteen thousand 
miles, but I think it involves a matter of some importance to 
the veterinary profession, and therefore communicate it 
to you. 
I am, dear Sirs, 
Yours obediently. 
To the Editors of the 1 Veterinarian / 
CASE OF RUPTURE OF THE CLECUM OF A FOAL. 
By M. Stone, M.R.C.V.S., Wath-upon-Dearne. 
The following case may not be uninteresting to some of 
the readers of the Veterinarian, as showing that very exten- 
sive disease may exist and yet altogether escape observation. 
The patient was a valuable ten-months-old foal, of the cart- 
breed, belonging to a farmer, at Frickley, about six miles 
from this place. It was taken suddenly ill on the 19th of 
February, of the present year. On my arrival I found the 
animal laying down on the near side, unable to rise, the 
pulse imperceptible at the jaw r , and the mucous membranes 
blanched. The owner informed me that on the day previous 
to my being called in, it had galloped about very much in 
the pasture, in consequence of another horse having been 
removed from the same field. I considered the case a hopeless 
one, expressing my conviction that some internal rupture 
had taken place, and that the animal was fast approaching 
dissolution. The lapse of half-an-hour sufficed to confirm 
my opinion, so that I was enabled to make a post-mortem ex- 
amination before leaving the place. On cutting through the 
parietes of the abdomen, a large quantity of ingesta was 
found to have made its escape from a rupture in the caecum, 
about six inches in length ; and on laying open the gut 1 found 
an almost incredible number of the ascarides, many of 
which were firmly attached to the mucous coat. There were, 
