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Cast him, and opened the hollow part in the frog more completely, 
and gave vent to a quantity of thin ichorous matter, which was 
followed by the sloughing of a small piece of bone: syringe with 
sol. chlor. calcis, petrol, comp., and apply pressure as before. 
\%th .—The sol. chlor. calcis and sulph. zinci have been used 
alternately to this date; the discharge is of a fine healthy character, 
and the frog grows rapidly. Dress every third day with the chlor. 
calcis, the intermediate days with the sulph. zinc., and to have 
regular walking exercise. 
Nov. ^th .—The treatment has been continued to the present 
time; he goes sound in the walk, and very slight lameness is observ¬ 
able in the trot. He lays his heel well to the ground. Apply a 
blister round the coronet. 
Dec. 1th .—Blister repeated. 
Jan. 10/A, 1838.—Put to work, sound. 
Oct, 1839—He continues sound, although he has been worked 
excessively hard as a post horse, and is at this date one of the best 
horses in Mr. Simpson’s stud. 
A CASE OF SUDDEN SEROUS APOPLEXY IN 
A MARE. 
By Mr. Richardson, V.S., Peterborough. 
A BROWN coach mare, eight years old, the property of Mr. Geo. 
Clifton, of this place, was attacked some few weeks ago with 
symptoms of farcy, which disease appeared to have yielded to the 
treatment resorted to. She had not, however, been worked since 
that period; but as she seemed to have perfectly recovered, it was 
the intention of the coachman that she should have resumed her 
usual journeys on the following week. 
On Friday last, the 10th ult., she was turned out in the yard for 
a little exercise, which was a customary thing for the coachman to 
do when he returned home in the evening. At that time she ap¬ 
peared perfectly well, very playful, and in capital spirits; but she 
had scarcely left the stable before she began to stagger, and imme¬ 
diately broke out into the most violent and profuse perspiration. 
It was with the greatest difficulty he succeeded in getting her again 
into the stable ere she fell, and appeared to be suffering the most 
excruciating agony, beating the ground with her feet, and rising 
every instant, and dropping as suddenly. At this stage of the dis¬ 
ease I was sent for, the man stating that he thought the mare was 
mad. 
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