PRACTICE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE. 
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Case II. 
June 9th, 1845.—Was requested, about 8 o’clock A.M., to 
attend upon a waggon horse, the property of Messrs. Carver and 
Co., carriers, &c. in this town. 
History, fyc .—The animal is of a dark brown colour, eight 
years of age, of the heavy draught breed, and stands sixteen hands 
one inch high. In conformation he is short in the neck, moderately 
sized in his head, very large in the body or abdomen ; and short in 
the extremities, which are of good bone, and free from long hair. 
He has been in the possession of the firm about two years, during 
which period he has always been a very hearty animal. His busi¬ 
ness is that of working in the waggon shafts between here and the 
Brighouse railway station, a distance of little more than four miles, 
and over good road; the labour regularly is heavy, and at certain 
periods very severe. Along the road, on the evening of the 7th, 
he began to exhibit symptoms of lameness in the left fore leg; 
during the day he had eaten well and worked well, though the 
driver had heard him several times, during the last few days, utter 
a low short grunting sound, particularly if turned quickly round in 
the stall. When he arrived at his journey’s end, he was placed in 
a comfortable stable, and fed with a hot mash, which he ate with 
avidity. The day following (Sunday) he was treated similarly, 
but the lameness was observed to be more severe, and the breathing 
at times to be greatly hurried. The shoe was removed, but the 
foot was found free from disease. This morning he appeared so 
much better as to be able to resume his work, but, on arriving in 
Huddersfield, he was very ill, and I was requested to attend. 
Present symptoms .—Three of the extremities cold ; the right 
fore limb hot; great tenderness is evinced when pressure is applied 
to the left side of the chest; pulse 50 and respirations 20 per 
minute. The pulse has a hard jerking kind of action ; tracheal 
and bronchial respiration loud, and somewhat harsh; respiratory 
murmur over the right side perfectly clear, over the left side it is 
obscure, or rather, T should say, subdued greatly in its tone. Just 
before my examining the horse, he had partaken of a large bucket 
of mash and a small portion of hay, so that I deemed it best to 
wait a short time before giving medicine. On going again in about 
an hour afterwards, I found him to have become suddenly worse ; 
the respirations had increased to 45 per minute, and the pulse to 
64, and very firm. The nostrils were widely dilated, and the 
animal trembled violently. The head was rested upon the border 
of the manger, and the eye had a dull leaden look : along the chest 
on each side the “ panniculus carnosus” muscle was thrown into 
ridges, having deep furrows between them. The left fore leg was 
