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CASE OF GANGRENE AND SLOUGHING ROUND 
THE CORONET. 
By Mr. STODDART, of Richmond, Yorkshire. 
Nov. 13, 1838. — I WAS sent for to a mare belonging to Mr. W. 
Husband, farmer, near Richmond : she had, previous to my see- 
ing her, been accustomed to harrow the land along with other 
horses, and had got her feet bruised. On being very lame, the 
owner turned her into the pasture, and did not notice her for some 
days, when he saw that she could scarcely step, and sores had 
broken out round the coronet : the foot was also highly contracted. 
I pared away a portion of the sole and crust, and let out a great 
quantity of matter, &c. at the bottom. I then dressed the part with 
digestive ointment, and put on a poultice. 
14^A, A.M.— She is a great deal better. Continue the treatment. 
19^A, A.M. — Pus has formed half way round the coronet ; I punc- 
tured it, and let out not less than half a pint of pus. Dress with 
digestive liniment. 
2ChA. — The whole of the coronet is in a black and gangrenous 
state. Dress with an antiseptic mixture three or four times a-day. 
22 d, A.M. — The sloughing process has commenced right from 
the bone, leaving nothing but the main trunks of the artery, vein, 
and nerve unattached to the bone, the smaller vessels all coming 
away. Dress as before. 
In a few days I had the pleasure of seeing a healthy but large 
unsightly wound ; and I now have the gratification of beholding 
her all right again, and there being very little scar left. 
I certainly never witnessed such a case in my life before, and, it 
being rather interesting, it is at your will for The VETERINARIAN. 
AMPUTATION OF THE ANTERIOR PORTION OF THE 
LOWER JAW OF A HORSE. 
By M. H. BOULEY, Paris. 
The operation which I am about to describe was rendered neces- 
sary by a fracture of the lower jaw bone. The patient was an entire 
heavy draught-horse, seven or eight years old. He had been at- 
tached to one of those little carriages on four wheels which follow 
each other in a long line on the roads to La Comte. The carriage 
which immediately preceded his having suddenly stopped, the 
lower part of his head was caught between the back of that vehi- 
cle and the shaft of his own, and the shock was so violent, that the 
