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with a stimulating embrocation. At two p.m. I again saw her, 
and then gave her sulph. lot. ^viij, gum myrrh Jss, spt. aether 
nit. in warm water. At seven p.m. she had voided some 
dung, but appeared to be sinking fast; when I sent spt. aether 
nit. ^j, g. myrrh Jss, pulv. zingib. ^ij. At ten p.m. a messenger 
came to tell me that she was very much swollen. I sent sodae 
carb. ^iij ; but the swelling shortly afterwards disappearing, it 
was not given. I went by six the next morning, fully expecting 
to find her dead, when, to my astonishment, she was standing 
eating hay, which they told me she had been doing for more 
than a hour. I ordered small quantities of hay and potatoes to 
be given frequently, and as much oatmeal gruel as she would 
drink; on which diet she rapidly recovered. 
ON FIRING THROUGH THE SKIN, AND ONE-SIDED 
NAILING. 
By Mr. Pritchard, V.S., Wolverhampton. 
IN A LETTER TO MR. JAMES TURNER. 
Dear Sir, 
Although I am personally unknown to you, I trust the liberty 
I have taken in addressing a few lines on the subject of some 
surgical operations connected with our profession will not be 
considered a forward step on my part. In August 1830, you 
addressed a communication on the subject of firing to The Lancet , 
to which you received a reply; which was fruitful in nothing but 
worthless opposition to a disclosure of your experience : you gave 
a rejoinder to that reply, with a promise to publish your experi¬ 
ence and mode of practice connected with the actual cautery. As 
that publication has not yet appeared, and surmising that the 
cold water thrown upon your communication to The Lancet 
may have deterred the intention of proceeding to so publish, 
allow me to give you my experience on the use of the firing iron. 
I am situated in a great hunting country, and intimately con¬ 
nected with a numerous field belonging to the Albrighton hounds. 
Those injuries occurring to the fore-legs, viz. ankle joint-lameness, 
have for the last twelve years had my serious attention : it is a 
lameness to which hunters are more liable than any other form 
of lameness, and many truly valuable horses are disabled by it. 
Injuries of the fetlock are in most instances followed by callous 
enlargement of the inner or outer ankle, or of both, just as the 
branches of the suspensory ligament may be the subject of over- 
extension, for to this it is in most instancesowing. Blows on the 
joint have nothing to do with this species of lameness, but osseous 
