SANGUINEOUS APOPLEXY IN A SOW. 
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Table IV. — The number of horses cast during eight years; 
together with the disabilities which rendered them unfit for 
cavalry duty. 
Disabilities. 
Cast. 
Proportion of 
Cast Horses to 
Strength. 
Mean Age 
of 
Horses Cast. 
Extreme Ages. 
Lameness . 
67 
1 in 30 
About 10 
3 to 15 years 
Worn out . 
33 
1 in 61 
.. 15 
10 to 20 .. 
Blindness . 
22 
1 in 91 
.. 9 
5 to 17 .. 
Broken winded .. ... 
20 
1 in 100 
.. 11 
8 to 16 .. 
Unhealthy constitution 
14 
1 in 144 
.. 10 
7 to 16 .. 
V^icious disposition, * 
(chiefly kicking 
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9 
1 in 224 
.. 9 
5 to 12 .. 
and biting). 
Slowness of pace ... 
• 
3 
1 in 672 
.. 8 
7 to 10 .. 
168 
1 in 12 
10 years 
The mean age of the horses cast, as stated in the above table, 
is 10 years; and the mean age of the horses in 1806 was 91, 
and in 1837 9y years. 
Cast horses, although unfit for cavalry duty, may be useful for 
many other purposes. They are commonly sold by public auc¬ 
tion, and bring, on an average, about £S or £9 each. 
Lancet. 
SANGUINEOUS APOPLEXY IN A SOW. 
jBy M. Carrere, M.V., Labastide {Hautes Pyrenees), 
A sow fifteen months old, and in good condition, had been fed 
in the morning as usual with wash and bran, and was then turned 
into the meadow with the other swine of the villages. She 
had scarcely been there a quarter of an hour ere the swineherd 
observed that she crawled very slowly along, and held her head 
low : he immediately drove her home. 
I happened to be in the neighbourhood, and was desired to 
examine her. She appeared to me to be really ill—her head 
seemed to be very heavy—the eye haggard and inflamed, with 
its vessels much engorged, and her walk was uncertain and stag¬ 
gering. 'As I was observing her and talking wdth the swineherd, 
she, all at once, elevated her head, ran against the wall, and fell 
on her side, stretched at her full length, and there she lay motion¬ 
less as if she had been struck by lightning. They assured me 
that they had no suspicion of poison. 
I raised her head and opened her eyelids. The eye rolled 
