VETERINARY OBITUARY. 53 
tressed; but it is remarked that she sometimes coughs when she 
is mounted, which she did not do before. 
To-day, the 3d of May, I visited her again: she appeared to 
be in perfect health, and we could feel the beatings of the heart 
very plainly in their natural state, at the inferior part of the 
thorax, near to the elbow . 
I thought it right to communicate this extraordinary case, 
which appears to me to be interesting, both from its rarity and 
for the opportunity w hich it afforded me of administering the ex¬ 
tract ofjtligitalis, the action of which on the motions of the heart 
appears to me to be certain, but the dose of which, proper for dif¬ 
ferent animals, has not yet been determined. 
RecueiI de Med. Vet. 
Uetrrinar^ 
“ Death, a necessary end, 
Will come, when it will come." \ 
Dublin has proved a sadly fatal station to our army veteri¬ 
narians. It is not many years since that city deprived us of 
the benevolent, kind-hearted, and much-respected and beloved 
Mr. Cordeaux, Veterinary Surgeon of the Royal Artillery. Not 
long afterwards, Mr. Trigge, of the Scotch Greys, died suddenly 
in the Royal Barracks at Dublin. Since then, we have lost Mr. 
Sanneman, of the 10th Hussars, at the same barracks. And 
now we have the melancholy task of reporting the decease of 
Mr. John Hayward, A^eterinary Surgeon of the 5th Dragoon 
Guards, or Carabineers, which took place last month, in the 
Portobello barracks, at Dublin. Poor ‘‘ Jack Hayward’’ (the 
appellation he familiarly went by) will be lamented by all who 
knew him, and most by those who knew him best. In his 
regiment, in particular, we have occasion to know his loss will 
be severely felt, no less by a commanding officer, who reposed 
the greatest confidence in him, than by his brother officers, 
among whom he has often and often borne off the bell,”— 
perhaps, poor fellow! with no little cost, at times, to himself. 
John Hayward had but the portion of another year to remain 
in order to complete his servitude of twenty years, and all in the 
same regiment: at which period, we have heard, he contem¬ 
plated retiring from the army, and enjoying his w'ell-earned 
otium cum dignitate. But, alas ! farewell vain hopes— 
“ His hopes in heaven do dw ell!” 
The Gazette informs us that he is succeeded in his regiment 
by Mr. Ralston, late a cornet in the 25th Dragoons, whose 
name has already appeared among the contributors to our 
Journal. 
