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ON CATARACT. 
lie had another month’s rest before he was tried to work 
again, and was then put to the line which connects the horse 
with the boat; but before he had gone six or eight miles, he 
was observed to favour the leg, and walk lame. 
The owner then sent him home, greatly disappointed, and six 
weeks’ more rest were given him. In a day or two the lameness 
left him, and he was observed galloping about the field, as he 
had daily done before he was tried to work. 
The owner being tired of the expense of keeping, determined 
upon working him ; but he gave him only two days’ work in the 
week, a distance of 25 miles on the Wednesday and 25 on the 
Saturday. 
For two months he was kept at work ; but at every lock he 
was seen constantly lifting up his leg and throwing all the weight 
he possibly could off the flexor tendons; and at the end of 
this period he again walked upon his toe, but not so much as 
before. Different kinds of shoes were tried to prevent this, but 
with no beneficial effect. He was always worse at the beginning 
of his work, and when he had been standing, than he was when 
he was travelling. He is now turned out for a winter’s run, with 
a lever shoe on. At the present time he is not worth ten pounds, 
whereas, had he done well, three times that amount would not 
have bought him. 
Now, Messrs. Editors, it is from a love of the profession of 
which I am proud to be a member, and a consciousness that its 
interests cannot be promoted by the encouragement of delusive 
hopes from any operation or mode of treatment, that I send you 
this case ; and I shall be happy to hear, through the medium 
of your Journal, how the above-mentioned cases turned out. 
In that which was related by our lamented and estimable 
brother practitioner, Mr. Castley, as performed by Mr. Dick, 
the horse was, six months afterwards, as bad as the one here 
stated. This I learned from a friend, who is a native of Edin¬ 
burgh, and at that time a pupil of Mr. Dick. 
ON CATARACT. 
By Mr. W. Perry, V. S., Swaffharn , Norfolk . 
Although I have been in the habit of reading your Journal 
from its commencement, I never felt an inclination to lay my 
opinions before the public; but being much pleased with the re¬ 
marks of Mr. Cartwright, in your last Number, I feel called on to 
