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remarkable instance, I think, of this sort that I remember, oc¬ 
curred when we were at Brighton some years ago. A young 
horse belonging to the regiment had been suffering under a very 
severe and long-protracted attack of inflammation of the lungs : 
the case was for some time doubtful: ultimately, however, it 
seemed to be doing well, when, all of a sudden, the patient was 
seized with lameness in two legs (the near-fore and off-hind), but 
more especially the near-fore, where he evinced much pain, on 
the slightest pressure, over the back part of the pastern joint. 
Local bleeding and the warm bath were the remedies employed; 
and, on the third or fourth day, this affection as suddenly shifted 
into the two opposite legs ; appearing, however, in a less violent 
form. A few days afterwards it seemed to leave the fore extremi¬ 
ties altogether, and to fix itself in the two hind ones ; then, in a 
few days more, it changed back again into the near-fore leg, 
where it first began, and there it ultimately ended; leaving, how¬ 
ever, no bad effects behind. The horse perfectly recovered. 
This species of metastasis, a kind of shifting soreness of the ten¬ 
dons or bursae, may be sometimes troublesome enough, and attend¬ 
ed with temporary inconvenience; but I have never known any per¬ 
manent bad consequences to arise from it, except in one case, which 
has occurred lately, and which appeared to me to be sufficiently 
interesting to be put on record. I shall proceed, without further 
comment, to give you some account of it. 
A brown mare, six years old, and in fat condition, was admitted 
into the infirmary stables, Piers-hill Barracks, on the 16th of 
July last, with what might be called a smart attack of pneumo¬ 
nia, but which appeared speedily to give way to bleeding, &c. : 
the pulse and breathing had become tranquil, and there seemed 
to be nothing to fear. When horses are thus speedily relieved 
from an attack of this sort, I have observed they usually recover 
their appetite and spirits; and then those who have the care of 
them are extremely apt to indulge them with food too soon ; the 
consequence of which is, sometimes, a relapse. I suspect this 
was the case here ; for, on the third day after admission, we 
found the patient labouring under a very severe relapse, dis¬ 
tressed breathing, quick pulse, cold extremities, great dejection 
of spirits, and total loss of appetite. Bleeding was repeated, 
rowels were inserted, the sides extensively blistered, laxative and 
diaphoretic medicines administered, and under this treatment the 
symptoms again subsided to a certain degree; still, at the end of 
a week, we had a quick irritable pulse, almost total loss of ap¬ 
petite, and much constitutional disturbance. The patient conti¬ 
nued in this state, with but little abatement, until about the four¬ 
teenth day, when we found her complaining very much of the off 
