ON THE LACTEAL AND LYMPHATIC ABSORBENTS. 29 
10/A August. —Foot pared out, and caustic applied as before: 
in consequence of the animal being wanted for continual service, 
it was not dressed again until the 
6tlt October. —Foot pared. Application as before, once a 
fortnight: the foot gradually got better; and, on the 3d of De¬ 
cember, was quite well. The animal always rested the day after 
the application of the arsenic. 
CASE II. 
April 21, 1832.—A six-year-old waggon horse, the pro¬ 
perty of a miller, twelve miles from hence, had been attended by 
a neighbouring farrier for ten months, with lameness of the near 
fore foot. On examination, the sensitive sole and laminrn were 
found in a diseased state on the outside of the foot; foetid dis¬ 
charge of matter. The part was kept properly pared. Powdered 
white arsenic applied to the spurious granulations when requi¬ 
site ; and the following powders used twice a-week : Sulph. 
copper in powder Jvj, alum powder ^ij, bole ^ij. The horse 
was turned out to grass. A whole bottom shoe, with a slide at 
bottom and turned up the side of the crust, was applied to the foot, 
to keep on the dressing, and protect it from dirt, &c. Exfolia¬ 
tion of the side and lower part of^the coffin-bone took place; 
after which the foot gradually got well. 
2d August. —Crust grown down; sole hard ; animal free from 
lameness, and at work. 
A SERIES OF ESSAYS ON THE BLOOD, BLOOD¬ 
VESSELS, AND ABSORBENTS. 
By Mr. R. Vines, F.S., Royal Veterinary College. 
The Claim of the Hunters to the Discovery of Functions of the 
White or Lymphatic Veins of Red-blooded Animals, farther 
considered. 
Before I proceed farther with this subject, I must beg to 
be allowed to correct an error which occurred in my last commu¬ 
nication; in which it is stated that, ‘‘ although the Hunters might 
have carried their theories too far in considering the white or 
lymphatic veins of red-blooded animals as a sole and separate 
system of absorbent vessels, yet, injustice to them, it must be 
confessed that they were the first in this or any other country 
who taught that these vessels possessed the faculty of absorbing 
from serous surfaces, as well as that of absorbing the more solid 
parts of the body."'’ The latter I believe is justly due to them, 
