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A CARNIVOROUS HORSE, &C. 
mesentery diseased, and the intestines in contact with the liver were 
altered in colour.. The liver, as well as the lungs, was strangely 
diminished in size, of an extremely dark colour, and emitted an 
awful stench: when taken into the hand it crumbled to pieces like 
a bit of dirt. The liver appeared to be the primary organ affected. 
This mare worked until a fortnight before she expired. 
Case II.—The appearances after death, of a horse, thorough¬ 
bred, five years old, that died glandered in 1836, after taking 
large doses of iodine, cantharides, and sulph. cupri, not in combina¬ 
tion, but at different times are here related. 
The nasal, frontal, and maxillary sinuses were full of pus. 
Four gallons of red water were in the thorax ; the pleura was gan¬ 
grenous ; the lungs tuberculous ; the mesentery terribly diseased; 
and all the lobes of the liver, excepting the large one, of a dark clay 
colour, and quite rotten. 
A CARNIVOROUS HORSE. 
A FEW days since, a flock of sheep, belonging to Earl Lovelace, 
were turned into a field at East Horsley, and on the following 
morning two were found dead, and their flesh very much torn ; a 
few mornings after, another was found dead, with the flesh also 
torn. The shepherd, suspecting it to be a dog who had committed 
the slaughter, was determined to watch for him : he did so, but to 
his utter astonishment saw a horse, belonging to a person named 
Lucas, that was in the field with the sheep, attack them, kill one, 
and eat part of the flesh. The circumstance was made known to 
the owner of the horse, who paid the value of the sheep destroyed 
in this extraordinary manner. 
A PECULIAR AFFECTION IN SHEEP, IMMEDIATELY 
FOLLOWING SHEARING. 
By Mr. .1. Gutteridge, V.S., of Ross. 
In June last, my attention was directed to the sheep on three 
farms in my neighbourhood. There were eleven ewes on one of 
them, seven on another, and fifteen on the third; all of them 
affected with a very peculiar disease, and which the proprietors 
were naturally fearful would spread through the rest of the flock. 
It appeared either in the night after they were shorn, or in the 
course of the following day. 
