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continued a few days longer; when, as you may suppose, death 
put a period to the sufferings of the poor animal. 
However, on the Friday morning, independent of this professor 
being called in, Mr. Nealor sent his servant to Shrewsbury, and 
requested I would see the horse; but happening to be from home 
at the time, I was not able to reach Hogstow until six o’clock in 
the evening, and, w T hen within two miles of the house, met these 
two men, who call themselves veterinary surgeons. Mr. -— 
enquired if I was going to Mr. Nealor’s; and being answered in 
the affirmative, he said “The horse is rather unwell; but he’ll 
recover.’" I proceeded on my journey; and on my arrival I found 
the horse shut up in a small stall at the farther end of the stable, 
with two large horsecloths and a bag upon him, and three other 
horses in the same stable. 
Many similar cases have occurred in the neighbourhood ; and 
I think, Mr. Editor, that you and the profession will be con¬ 
vinced that some alteration should take place, to defend us and 
the public from serious injury. 
CASES OF THE HUSK IN CATTLE. 
By Mr. T. Leaver, of Willingdon. 
SEPT. 18, 1828.—I was sent for to look at seven heifers, the 
property of Mr. R. Hawes, of Westerham. They were about 
nineteen months of age each. I found them standing in a brook, 
at the foot of Pevensey Marsh. They were suffering with what 
is called the husk. At the time the wind was easterly, the nights 
foggy, and the weather unseasonably warm. It was late in the 
day when I first saw them. I desired that they should be re¬ 
moved into a yard for the night, in order that I might visit them 
there the following morning, which I did, and found them very 
ill. Their breathing was laborious, accompanied with continual 
snuffling, and a grunt at every expiration; the nostrils dilated ; 
foaming at the mouth, and also slightly at the nostrils: they 
refused both food and drink; their dung was black and scanty, 
and hardish ; and they were altogether very dull. 
I bled them to faintness. I gave to each of them Jviij of 
sulphate of soda, combined with yv of nitre; and ordered them 
to be turned out upon upland pasture, and the medicines to be 
repeated. In a few days, six of them became better: they began 
to feed sparingly ; their dung became natural ; but the snuffling 
and grunting continued, though abated in degree. One of them, 
