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were very numerous, and the size of the largest did not exceed 
that of a pea. 
The other viscera presented nothing remarkable. 
I leave to the readers of the Kecueil to judge of the value of 
these cases, with reference to the physiologico-pathological fact, 
which they were intended to establish. If they are not rigorously 
demonstrative, and that is my opinion, it will at least be con¬ 
ceded, that they give much probability to the theory of the re¬ 
absorption of pus. At all events, they will do good, by inviting 
discussion on a point of pathology, which, at the present moment, 
much occupies the attention of veterinarians. 
Recueil, April 1834. 
CATARACT. 
By Mr. Richard Rawlings, Sen., R.5., Milk-street, Bristol. 
Having read with considerable interest some observations in 
The Veterinarian on the subject of Cataract, and especially 
on its sudddenly appearing without previous inflammation of the 
eye, I am induced to offer my opinion on this point, and a very 
decided one, because it has been founded on more than twenty 
years’ extensive practice. I wish not to revive an old contro¬ 
versy that was becoming a little too personal, or to raise any un¬ 
pleasant feeling in the minds of those who have gone before me. 
We are infinitely obliged to those gentlemen ; for if we are to fol¬ 
low only the beaten track of old established opinion, adieu to the 
improvement of our art! Mr. Percivall has lately added a sup¬ 
posed new disease to the list of those to which the horse is sub¬ 
ject—scarlatina, and we are much indebted to him for the innova¬ 
tion. It is a disease which many of us had seen, but of which 
our too limited nosology contained no mention, and to which we 
had not dared to give a definite form or name. 
I never saw a single case of cataract without previous disease 
of the eye; but a circumstance occurred in the autumn of the 
last year which did for awhile surprise and stagger me. There 
was a case in which cataract did seem to appear most suddenly, 
and without any previously observed disease. 
On the 18th of October, a horse, warranted sound, was pur¬ 
chased by one of my employers, from an extensive dealer in 
Temple Street, Bristol, for £50. The dealing took place at Glut¬ 
ton, midway between Bristol and Wells, at which last place I then 
resided. The purchaser tried the horse in harness, and approved 
of his paces, but said that he had a cough. The dealer replied 
that it was a mere trifle, and he would give a special warranty 
