494 DISEASE OF OSSEOUS TISSUE IN THE HORSE. 
of such cases might reach the eye of those residing at remote 
parts of the world, and who, perhaps, were familiar with such 
diseases, but had not seen the necessity of publishing what 
they knew about them. The light, therefore, they possessed 
was hid, as it were, ee under a bushel,” and the community 
thus deprived of its influence. 
I believe that a record of facts is highly important, 
not only to furnish data for the systematizing of disease, but 
also in many other ways is the utility of such a course 
beneficial, as is acknowledged by most pathologists; so that 
I need not occupy space in setting forth the advantages to 
be derived from it. 
Holding these views, I have from time to time exerted my 
humble abilities in recording a few cases, which to me, at least, 
possessed some interest, and in this spirit I offer the details 
of the following. 
On the 14th of November, 1859, I was requested by Mr. 
Wallin, veterinary practitioner at Theale, Berkshire, to see 
some horses, the property of Mr. Champion, of Calcot, near 
Reading, who is a large farmer and miller. Three of this 
gentleman’s horses had died, a fourth was not expected to 
live many days, and two others were labouring under the 
same disease in a less acute form. It not being convenient 
for me to go there at the time I was requested, I arranged 
to see the horses on the 21st, on which day Mr. Wallin drove 
me to Mr. Champion’s farm. On my arrival I was told 
that the horse which I was previously informed w r as not 
expected to live many days, had been dead about twenty- 
four hours, but that the carcase was kept for my examination. 
I thought it best, however, first to examine the two horses 
then ill, and also to obtain from Mr. Wallin and Mr. 
Champion as much of the history of these singular cases as 
possible. 
Mr. Wallin commenced by stating that the disease then 
affecting Mr. Champion’s horses had puzzled him very much. 
It had not yielded to any treatment he had had recourse 
to, but gradually increased in intensity, wearing out the vital 
powers, and ending in death. The symptoms he described to 
be somewhat as follows:— c< My attention,” he said, “ was in 
most instances first directed to defective action, perhaps in 
one joint or limb only, which, upon examining, tenderness 
would be evinced with inordinate heat, and in a few 7 days 
visible enlargement would be observed to exist. In the 
course of a w eek, or thereabouts, another of the limbs would 
become affected in the same way, when the acute symptoms 
of the first attacked, would, perhaps, have partially passed 
