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ECZEMA EPIZ00T1CA. 
a considerable discharge took place from the coronets and 
the frogs, which were separated from the insensible frogs so 
that anything of a moderate thickness might be easily passed 
between them, and she refuses all food but bay. I advised 
milk gruel to be given in the place of water, and ordered 
dailv a little tonic medicine combined with a slight diuretic. 
On the 30th—She appears much weaker and is fast wasting 
in flesh ; cannot be induced to take corn of any description, 
but drinks freely of the gruel; the discharge from the feet 
continues, and has become offensive. Ordered dry pulv. 
Alumini to be rubbed on two or three times a dav. 
mr 
July 2nd.—No appetite; appears weaker, and continues to 
waste in flesh. This state of decreasing of power went on 
gradually until the J9th, when the animal could not rise 
without assistance. 
On the 26th she was still weaker, and could only stand a 
few minutes without being supported. 
By the 29th she had wasted to a mere skeleton, was 
unable to stand when lifted up, pulse 80, takes a little milk 
occasionally; the powers of life appeared fast ebbing to a 
close, and death terminated her sufferings on the 1st day of 
August. 
I had, unfortunately, no opportunity for an examination 
after death, but I requested to be supplied with one of the 
feet, which I have forwarded to you, that you may form some 
idea of the ravages the disease had made and the suffering 
of the poor beast. 
I am, dear Sir, yours obediently. 
To G. W. Yaenell, Esq. 
REMARKS BY ASSISTANT-PROEESSOR VARNELL. 
Whether the disease alluded to by Mr. Lepper in the 
above communication is identical in its nature with eczema 
as affecting cattle, sheep, and some other domestic animals, 
I am not prepared to state. I have no doubt but many 
persons will consider that it is not. For my own part, I 
think there were presented many of its symptoms; and the 
phases were so very analogous, that some difficulty will be 
experienced in separating it from that disease. It is unfor¬ 
tunate that no examination was made of the mucous mem¬ 
brane of the alimentary and respiratory tracks, for, as it 
isj we have no knowledge whether those membranes were 
affected or not. The interior of the mouth seemed to have 
escaped vesication in this instance; which appears to be 
