CHRONIC RHEUMATISM IN THE HORSE. 
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As I have made this disease a special study for the last 
ten years, and during that period have treated, or examined 
after death, upwards of 3000 cases, and cannot boast of any 
better success now than that which I laid before the 
members of the Veterinary Medical Association in 1830; I 
hail with real satisfaction the possession of such a weapon 
as this to fight our great enemy with ; and would ask Mr. 
Smale to favour the profession, through your pages, with a 
more detailed account of the cases of lung disease so success¬ 
fully treated by him with valerianic acid. Also, the dose or 
doses of the acid to be given, the number of the cases he has 
thus treated, the stage the disease had reached when the treat¬ 
ment was commenced by him, and whether one or both of the 
lungs were affected in all or any of the cases; also, if there 
was little or much fever present in any of them ; further, 
were they recently purchased animals, and of w T hat breed, 
and were they all treated on one person’s premises, or in 
different localities. 
These questions may appear numerous, but the import¬ 
ance of the subject induces me to think that they are de¬ 
manded, and I hope Mr. Smale will not hesitate to reply to 
them, thus giving to the profession the benefit of his 
experience. 
ON CHRONIC RHEUMATISM IN THE HORSE. 
By J. Bolton Hall, V.S., Royal Artillery. 
There appears to be some doubt in England as to whether 
rheumatism, in any shape, is one of the ills that horse flesh 
is heir to. Old practitioners generally look with great sus¬ 
picion upon every new term introduced into the veterinary 
vocabulary. Be this as it may, I feel fully convinced that 
rheumatism is a disease that horses are particularly subject 
to in our colonies, and think that no one having had any expe¬ 
rience as a breeder or keeper of horses, will attempt to deny 
my assertion, if acquainted with a tropical country. 
My attention was first called to this disease in China by 
Captain King, the town mayor of Hong Kong. He re¬ 
marked to me at the time that he had been reading some 
work the author of which denied altogether the existence of 
rheumatism in the horse. Captain King, however, pro¬ 
duced a pony 44 lame all round,” as the dealers "would pro¬ 
nounce it. I examined him carefully, and could find nothing 
