54 
imonttils Ucpovt of , 
From December 1 to December 20, 1832, inclusive** 
This sketch of the proceedings of a little school is attempted, as pro¬ 
mising to be useful both to the student and the practitioner. It will be 
followed, it is to be hoped/by similar records from larger schools. Detached 
cases like those with which the present number abounds will always be 
welcome ; but these general records must be confined to schools of instruc¬ 
tion, not only to avoid unpleasant or injurious comparisons between prac¬ 
titioners, but because the record of a school must be a faithful one: the 
student will know whether the account is an honest one, and t^e teacher 
will not dare to falsify or exaggerate. 
H ORSES. —Abscess in ear 1, catarrh 9, contraction 1, corns 1, curb 1, 
encysted tumour 1, grease 4, laceration of eyelid 1, lameness 
obscure 2, larnpas 1, navicular disease (neurotomy) 1, sandcrack 1, 
sprain in fetlock 2, staked in chest 1, thrush 1, suppurating wounds 
in feet 4. 33 
Dogs.—A sthma 1, cancer 1, canker in the car 3, canker on the ear 1, 
canker in the mouth 1, catarrh 1, chorea3, diarrhoea 4, dislocation 1, 
distemper 12, constipation 1, etlusion between the cartilage and in¬ 
tegument of the ear 1, epilepsy 1, fracture 1, haemorrhoids 2, hydro- 
thorax 1, indigestion 1, mange 4, morbid growth of nails 2, ophthal¬ 
mia 2, paraph} mosis 1, parturition 2, pneumonia 1, rabies 2, 
rheumatism 6, rheumatic fever 1, schirrous tumours 1, spasmodic 
colic 1, spinal injury 1, sprain of elbow'joint 1, warts 1, worms 2 .. . 64 
Cattle.—R edwater 1. 1 
Cats.—C onstipation 1, distemper 1, inflammation of bowels 1. 3 
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Six of the cases of catarrh in the horse occurred in one stable, and at 
nearly the same time. There was no apparent exciting cause, except a little 
additional w'ork. It seemed to be an endemic disease; and in one of the 
horses very decidedly, and in another in a slighter degree, the characteristic 
debility of catarrhal fever was remarked. The disease readily yielded to a 
copious abstraction of blood, and a few fever balls composed of digitalis, 
emetic tartar, and nitre. 
The case of navicular disease, and the consequent operation of neuro¬ 
tomy, aflbrdcd a singular instance of professional irresolution or incapacity. 
The horse had long been groggy in both legs, and, with much difficulty, 
the owner was prevailed on to let the excision of the neiTe be performed. 
The horse was sent to the gentleman’s seat in the country, in order that it 
might be turned out as soon as might be after the operation. It was cast 
by the village practitioner—kept down a full hour—operated upon, as it was 
supposed^—and liberated; but it was soon found that the grogginess was not 
in the slightest degree removed. On examining the animal it was dis¬ 
covered that the nerve had been excised on the inside of one leg only, and 
that below the fetlock. The people about the horse had sufficient penetra¬ 
tion to find out that there was something wrong here—the owner was in 
great wrath—and the poor beast was brought back again to the metropolis, 
* The Report will, in future, extend from the 20th of one month to the 
same day in the succeeding one. 
