THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XXII, 
No. 254. 
FEBRUARY 1849. 
Third Series, 
No. 14. 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PATHOLOGY AND PRACTICE OF 
VETERINARY MEDICINE. 
By W. Haycock, Veterinary Surgeon, 
(Member of the Veterinary College, Edinburgh,) 
King Street, Huddersfield. 
Before commencing my “ Contributions,” a few remarks to the Reader may 
not be out of place. The cases which I give will be such as have come under 
my own especial care at the periods stated ; and they were noted at the time 
with the greatest possible attention in my case book. For their accuracy I 
vouch in every respect, and can, if necessary, bring testimony of the highest 
character as to their truthfulness. For many years I have kept a register of 
such facts in my own practice as have struck me as being at all peculiar. 
Some of them I shall submit to the Reader. In most of the cases I shall give 
I shall purposely select such as have ended fatally to the animals spoken of. 
By so doing, I present, as far as it is possible for me to do, a complete his¬ 
tory of the disease in each case reported; a method which, to the scientific 
reader, will be more highly valued than a vaunted detail of cures: a practice 
which is frequently and too successfully resorted to by quacks and impos¬ 
tors, for the purpose of preying upon the pockets of the credulous and simple 
minded. I deem it necessary to give the above explanation, lest the reader, 
not knowing my reason, might possibly conclude that I was singularly unfor¬ 
tunate in the treatment of cases entrusted to my care. 
Case I. 
Lymphatitis, Megrims, fyc. 
May ‘Iftth, 1843.—I was requested to attend upon a horse be¬ 
longing to Mr. W. North, market gardener, in this town. 
History, fyc. —The animal is of a dark brown colour, of the light 
draught breed, stands fifteen hands two inches high ; has been in the 
possession of the present owner and that of his late father for a period 
of about thirty years, and the age of the horse is estimated by the 
family to be about thirty Tour years; during which period he has 
suffered but very little from disease. In 1839 I attended upon 
the animal for an attack which he had of sub-acute pneumonia, 
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