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COD-LIVER OIL IN INFLUENZA. 
Magazine,” there is a spell in the old horseshoe which we have, 
by Caliph Gloag’s magic, got again, springing the heels and all; 
it is not to be found in that composition of hair and gutta percha. 
Why, I shall take another opportunity of shewing. 
Had you attended to what the great Caliph said, the spell would 
never have been broken: instead of that, you only did so occa¬ 
sionally, and then only the luck returned to the lame horse. 
COD-LIVER OIL IN INFLUENZA. 
By G. T. Brown, M R.C.V.S., Infirmary , 40 and 41, Park - 
crescent-mews West, New-road. 
To the Editor of " The Veterinarian .” 
September 12 th, 1849. 
Sir,—I AM induced to forward the particulars of the following 
case, as well from the peculiarity of the symptoms evinced as from 
the successful use of an agent, novel, as far as I can discover, in 
veterinary practice. 
I remain, Sir, 
Your’s respectfully. 
Saturday, January 20 th, 1849, a brown coach horse, six years 
old, was observed to be slightly lame in the off hind limb, with 
swelling on the outer side of the hock. No notice was taken of 
the matter beyond fomentations to the part, the enlargement being 
considered the result of a blow from some part of the stall. Sun¬ 
day morning, however, at ten o’clock, I was summoned in haste, 
and on my arrival found the following alarming symptoms:— 
General stiffness and incapability of motion—swelling, heat, and 
tenderness of the off stifle, both hocks, and the fetlocks of all the 
extremities—pulse 64, and weak—respiration much accelerated, 
and carried on with extreme difficulty from the obstruction conse¬ 
quent on mucous accumulation; there was also discharge of trans¬ 
parent fluid from the nostrils. A careful examination by ausculta¬ 
tion demonstrated the main accumulation of mucus to exist in the 
ramification of the bronchise, the upper part of the trachea being 
comparatively free, while the absence of inflammatory action in 
the parenchyma of the lungs was inferred from the vesicular 
murmur being but little interfered with. I was beginning to despair 
