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CASE OFPOUL IN THE FOOT. 
istence of the stricture, as also his death ; for I found, that,after 
the peristaltic motion was increased to a given ratio, or in any 
way particularly hurried from exertion, it very frequently brought 
on the complaint, which I conceive must have arisen by the food 
in the intestinal canal meeting with resistance at the strictured 
parts; and it is my opinion that the stricture must have been 
brought on from an old attack of introsusception, and from which 
he must have had a very narrow escape for his life: the two 
strangulated portions of the gut having for some time been 
squeezed together, inflammation was set up, lymph deposited 
and the stricture formed. 1 ’ 
I may further remark, that this case furnishes another instance 
of unsoundness in horses, of which no notice has yet been taken • 
and there is no question that the purchaser would have recovered 
the price of the animal if he had received the information a little 
sooner, which he obtained when too late, that the horse had had 
seveial sinnlai attacks previously to the date of purchase. 
A CASE OF FOUL IN THE FOOT, 
As related by the Owner, Mr. Jackson, in a Letter to Mr. Dick. 
Last year, about this time, a cow of mine became very much 
afflicted by a soreness in one of her hind feet. It was so very 
painful, that she soon lost much of her flesh, and dried of her 
milk ; but as she was a valuable cow, I did not like to destroy 
her without giving her a fair chance: and, during last winter 
an . s P' in §> called to her assistance several persons in the 
neighbourhood, who were supposed to be well skilled in the dis¬ 
eases of black cattle; one of whom said it was a corn, another that 
it was a core, and a third that it was some sort of growth in the 
foot very deeply rooted, and so on. 
Several things were done for her last winter. The wound was 
washed and dressed regularly every day, and the sore place 
(which appeared to me then to be about the size of half-a-crown) 
was burnt down with vitriol, and the top of it was cut when it 
giew high, and it was, until Whitsunday, kept bandaged, but 
all to no purpose : I then gave her up for lost, and she was 
urned out to pasture to live or die as she might. She has con¬ 
tinued in great pain all the summer; and as winter is comin°- on 
and as there seems no chance left her, I have now relieved her 
rom torture, and take the liberty of sending her hind legs to yon, 
