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to do so ever since without any untoward symptom. Tliis was a case 
which I considered as a forlorn hope; and, although I had often 
tested the effect of the sulphate of copper under similar circum¬ 
stances, yet it had failed, and, had it not been for the desire I had 
to do full justice to this untested remedy, I should have destroyed 
the animal, sooner than have risked him upon the establishment he 
belonged to. We have also tried its effect in the same doses upon 
chronic indurated swelled leg, where repeated attacks of inflamma¬ 
tion upon one hinder leg has left it permanently enlarged frouj 
cellular depositions. Its effect is very powerful, combined with 
the application of w'et bandages. 
A CASE OF CONSECUTIVE ABSCESS. 
By Mr. R. Metherell, V.S., Spalding. 
On Tuesday the 27th of August last, I was sent for to see a 
valuable five-year-old cart mare, the property of a neighbouring 
agriculturist, Mr. F. Burghnell, of Spalding Common. She had 
been taken up from grass, and shod on the previous Saturday, and 
was intended for Spalding Fair on the following Wednesday. It, 
however, happened that, on Sunday morning, she fell very lame 
in the off fore-leg. 
The owner, concluding that the lameness arose from ignorance or 
neglect, or both, on the part of the shoeing-smith (as is too often 
the case), sent for the smith. The shoe was taken off, and the 
foot examined; but nothing could be detected to cause lameness in 
that part. She was then pronounced to be chest-foundered, but no 
decisive measures were immediately taken. As the evening ap¬ 
proached, a swelling of the arm was recognized, and the lameness 
rather increased, and continued to do so until Tuesday morning, 
when I was sent for. 
On examining the mare, I found a considerable swelling of the 
muscular portion of the arm, both the flexors and extensors being 
involved, with much heat, tension, and difficulty in extending the 
leg. The pulse was 55, and intermitting, and the mucous mem¬ 
branes somewhat injected; but the breathing was tranquil, and the 
heat (with the exception of the swollen portion of the arm) uni¬ 
formly distributed over the body and extremities. There was no 
constipation of the bowels, no suppression of urine, and* but little 
loss of appetite. 
I commenced the treatment of tliis case by local bleeding, and 
for wliich the superficial brachial vein was selected. Eight pounds 
of blood were abstracted. A seLon was inserted in the chest, and 
