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having removed to dry pasturage or a hilly country, are never 
attacked with this malady. 
M. Lecoq has sent several records of important facts. Three of 
them relate to cases of inflammation of the womb in breeding mares. 
One case was complicated with founder in all four feet, and it was 
necessary to destroy the patient. The fourth case was one of incom¬ 
plete paralysis of the extensor muscles of the hind legs, and which 
yielded to medical treatment. The fifth case had relation to a 
scirrhous enlargement of the sheath of the penis, the greater part of 
which was amputated. The sound portion gradually healed, and 
the horse returned to his work. The sixth case is that of a wound 
penetrating the chest of a mare. She perfectly recovered from the 
injury. The seventh, eighth, and ninth cases were those of neuro¬ 
tomy. They were all successful. 
This indefatigable practitioner afterwards sent another collection 
of cases—five on paralysis, the greater part of which were fatal; 
two of spontaneous luxation of the ilio-femoral articulations; and 
others of equal importance. 
31. Poliier records five cases of open joint, in which he had re¬ 
peatedly applied a blister over the wound; in one, however, he 
was compelled to have recourse to the cautery, and in another the 
tincture of aloes completed a cure. 
31. Lacoste sent an account of twenty cases—six of colic, three 
of hernia, five of palsy, and six of lameness of the superior portions 
of the fore legs. Of the six with colic, one patient died from its 
being connected with umbilical hernia. His account of the cases 
of hernia was exceedingly interesting. Partial palsy ^vas treated 
by bleeding, purging, and the cautery; and, in general palsy, his 
chief dependence, but it usually failed him, was on emetics and 
strychnine. As for the lamenesses in the anterior extremities, 
antiphlogistic treatment and emollient lotions were generally use¬ 
ful, except when the affection had assumed a chronic form, and 
then setons and rowels were indicated. 
31. Delafond selected the subject of wounds in the feet of horses 
from nails accidentally picked up in the streets. The consequences 
and treatment of wounds in the joints are sketched with a master’s 
hand. A case of pulmonary hernia in the dog possesses much 
interest, and fatal rupture of the liver far too often comes under 
the cognizance of the medical man. The recital of the develop¬ 
ment of a polypous excrescence in each nostril of an ox closes his 
list of essays. These tumours were extracted one after the other— 
the bleeding was slight, and the cure was completed. 
31. Blavette sent an account of the diseases of our domestic 
poultry. His essay will be found in page 649 of this volume. 
Ill a second paper he gives a history of a mare, that, for 
