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EXTENSIVE DISEASE OF LUNGS. 
I cannot comprehend how such extensive disease should 
exist in the lungs so long without any premonitory symptoms 
being shown, especially as the horse was used for very heavy 
draught purposes. 
By the exhibition of stimulants and tonics the aged horse 
soon recovered, and is now at work again. 
I noticed with pleasure the remarks made on Veterinary 
Obstetrics in your valuable Journal for March, by Mr. A. 
Lawson ; for, being located in a large breeding district, I am 
frequently called to difficult cases of parturition, but not as a 
rule u*itil probably two or three neighbours have tried their 
hands at the case unsuccessfullv. 
During this month I was hastily summoned to see two 
valuable cart mares which had endeavoured to abort, and 
whilst the messenger was on his way here, a young farmer, 
supposed to be skilled in such matters, was consulted about 
them, and on his making an examination as to the position of 
the foals he at once determined to cut them away. On my 
arrival, I found him busy at work on the second foal, and I 
therefore declined to interfere in the matter. I perceived 
that he employed a large clasp knife to accomplish his pur¬ 
pose, and, as I anticipated, he not only brought the foals 
away piecemeal but divided the walls of the uterus in not a 
few places. This I ascertained on examination by the 
vagina, and from a portion of the intestines protruding 
through the apertures. I informed the owner of the conse¬ 
quences which would result, and refused to have anything to 
do with either of the animals, and took my leave. I was 
afterwards informed that they both survived for thirty-six 
hours nearly, when death terminated their sufferings. 
During the four preceding years, I have not known in 
this district so many cart mares abort in one season as in 
the present one. I have excised nine healthy foals, and drawn 
away several from young mares, and am glad to be able to 
say, without losing a patient. 
The agriculturists in this part of the country certainly 
prefer any one’s services which will cost them nothing, though 
often at the loss of their animals, rather than employ a 
professional person in such cases ; and therefore I do not 
hesitate to tell them that it serves them quite right. Y\ hen 
shall we be duly estimated ? 
