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very strong and quick, and full, when the disease has reached its 
greatest intensity. The patient does not lie down, but is every 
instant alternately shifting his feet, as if he was exceedingly tired 
or weak. 
This disease, under which no less than nine horses laboured 
at one time in our infirmary, continued from eight to twelve 
days ; and in every case it terminated well. The treatment was 
very simple;' it consisted of restriction as to diet, emollient 
drinks and fumigations, and additional warmth of clothing ; two 
only were bled at the commencement of the disease. 
The causes of this affection are unknown. Some lame horses, 
which during rest had got well,were placed near these sick animals, 
and all at once became affected ; nevertheless there is not enough 
to authorize us in concluding that it is contagious. 
Colic. —The clinical professor has availed himself of several 
occasions, during this year, to direct the attention of the pupils to 
the pathognomonical symptoms and the treatment of recent indi¬ 
gestions either with or without undue quantities of food, and 
compared with those that arise from internal congestion or stran¬ 
gulation. In some horses, whose violent and frequent fits of 
colic announce intestinal congestion, these symptoms cease all 
at once, and as it were by magic, at the close of one or of many 
copious bleedings at the commencement of the complaint. In 
others, where the colic, less violent, and the swelling of the 
belly, &c., betray stomachic or intestinal indigestion, without 
congestion or haemorrhage, the administration of drinks, with 
ether, and of injections in which emetic tartar has been dis¬ 
solved, have had the happiest results; especially upon two 
horses that were recently brought to the School, and whose reco¬ 
very was despaired of. These examples of maladies, the nature of 
which are so different, and whose symptoms have been so often 
confounded, have been the subject of many clinical lessons, in 
which the professor has endeavoured to impress the minds of his 
pupils with the importance of the diagnosis of these maladies, 
the treatment of which is so different. 
Section of the Perforans Tendon. —The success at¬ 
tained in our School by the division of the perforans tendon, in 
horses lame in the fetlocks, has induced many of the neighbour¬ 
ing proprietors to send to us, in order that they might be sub¬ 
jected to this operation, many horses which this infirmity had 
rendered unserviceable. These animals were accordingly ope¬ 
rated on, and, as two of them work in the immediate neighbour¬ 
hood of the School, we have been enabled to satisfy ourselves 
that they were completely cured ; and that the limbs operated 
upon have recovered all their strength, although these animals 
