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escaped. In about a month the animal was dismissed; but it had 
lost an eye, and the socket was filled by an exostosis, springing 
from a wound which the fork had inflicted on the bone of the 
orbit. 
In the second case there was the same tumefaction, but particu- 
larly evident towards the inner canthus of the eye : the sympto- 
matic fever and the treatment of it were the same. The animal 
died on the eighteenth day. The meninges of the brain were 
double their natural thickness. At the origin of the optic nerve 
were black vegetations which evidently compressed it. The 
plexus choroides were much enlarged, and of a black violet colour, 
and the ventricles were filled with a red fluid. 
The parts in the neighbourhood of the suture which united the 
frontal and lacrymal bones were contused, a sufficient proof that 
the blow had been violent, and inflicted by a sharp instrument. 
Hurtrel D’Arboval has placed a very encouraging case on re- 
cord. The upper part of the superior maxillary bone and the 
zygomatic arch were broken in a horse by a kick from his com- 
panion. The eye was forced from its socket. M. Revel, a skilful 
French veterinary surgeon, carefully removed every splinter, re- 
placed the bones in their natural situation, returned the eye to its 
socket, and by a very simple course of treatment effected a com- 
plete cure in six weeks. A cure so radical, and with so little 
effort, seems very extraordinary, especially when the concussion 
which the brain must have experienced from so tremendous a blow 
is taken into consideration. It is time for us to pause. 
THE COMPARATIVE DISEASES AND LAMENESSES 
OF THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH HORSES. 
By Nimrod. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Dear Sir, — O wing to the sort of roving life I have lately been 
leading, it has not been in my power to perform my promise of 
giving you my opinion on the comparative amount of disease 
and lameness in the horses of my own country and those of France. 
It appears to me to be greatly against the former; and I am enabled 
to speak on no slight experience. I am now entering on the eighth 
year of my residence in this country, during which time I have 
not only been a close observer of the horses in my own neighbour- 
hood, together with one or two of my own under my eye, 
