PHYSIOLOGY OF THE FOOT. 
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head at the time hanging on one side. There were 
two scars on the forehead, and a small wound on the an¬ 
terior and upper part of the occipital bone. Pulse 34; 
appetite good. I acquainted the proprietor that the case 
was hopeless, and that there was effusion or extravasation of 
blood on the brain. The horse had been treated by a farrier 
for a £s cold/ 5 was bled, &c. It appears now that he was 
down two days before I was called in, and had received 
the injury eleven days before. On the ground, he rolled 
and staggered, and turned round and round like a giddy 
sheep, and ran against walls or posts, or anything in his way. 
The owner asked me to take the case in hand. I said I 
would endeavour to relieve him, but thought there was 
little probability of doing so. I administered a cathartic, 
and inserted setons in the forehead and behind the ears, and 
blistered the poll. 
25t/i. No alteration. Prescribed the knacker’s knife. 
Eost-mortem Appearances .—No injury of the bones of the 
cranial cavity. Dura and pia mater injected with black 
blood. In the fissure of the cerebrum extravasation of blood. 
Effusion of tough lymph, 3 SS i n weight, between the cere¬ 
brum and cerebellum. Effusion of serum between the 
cerebellum and medulla oblongata. 
PHYSIOLOGY OF THE FOOT. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Sir, — I forwarded, through Mr. Reeve, a paper and draw¬ 
ings, but not in a form, I suspect, suitable for your Journal; 
nevertheless, these may elicit some observations from him or 
yourself on the physiology of the foot; at the same time I 
cannot help writing, that any remarks of mine on shoeing 
are not introduced with the view to effect change in the 
ordinary practice of shoeing. What Messrs. Coleman and 
Goodwin could not in their position do, would be hopeless in 
an humble individual like m 
disavow it. 
I am pleased with the manly candour of Mr. Feild’s answer 
to Mr. Gourdon, and the proper phase of your editorial 
remarks. Every one knows, who has seen the artist’s seven 
ages of an English horse, that he is the victim of so many 
different parties’ balance sheets, and the farriers among the 
yself; I therefore wish to distinctly 
