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way between the pastern and hock; all below it is cold and 
black. Lately the cow has eaten well; she has now begun 
to fail in her appetite. 
29 th.—All the phalanges, with the sesamoid bones, have 
come off the right leg. Ulceration is going on round the 
middle of the metatarsal bone. The pedal bones of the left 
leg must come off soon. 
April 4th.—Was shot this date. 
Post-mortem .—The anterior lobe of both lungs is full of 
continuous abscesses, of the size of a pigeon^s egg, mostly 
containing white thick pus. The edges of some of the other 
portions show evidences of the same slow changes beginning 
and going on. The central and upper parts of the lungs are 
the most healthy. The serous membranes in the chest were 
intact. The heart large. I did not see the contents of the 
abdomen. 
At first sight, it might appear that the above case had 
some connection with the vesicular epizootic. The reader 
find an excellent paper, by Mr. Tombs, in the last March 
Number of ‘The Veterinarian/ to which I refer him. 
In my patient, instead of “granulations of new flesh” 
soon forming, they never formed at all, nor did the system 
ever evince the smallest disposition to repair the lesion. The 
death of the feet, &c., seemed to result from too little action 
instead of too much; and when the hoofs came off and ex¬ 
posed the bones, both laminated tissue and periosteum were 
dead. Had one foot alone been affected, I would have tried am¬ 
putation. The grunting, also, was very deep, and the mouth 
not affected, yet it was not a case of pleuro-pneumonia. 
Will Mr. Tombs be so good as to explain, if the sentence in 
his paper, “ leaving the pedal and coronary bones bare,” means 
the periosteum was dead ?—because in my own case, the 
death of this tissue destroyed all hope of new hoofs. 
To me it appeared more like a case of senile gangrene 
in the human subject than any thing else, complicated with 
phthisis of long standing. 
September 8th, 1850. 
Vomition. 
This occurred in a bay mare, belonging to Messrs. Bartliff 
and Hartley, surgeons, which had been out at grass all night. 
I found her very sick, cold, and wdth the mucous membranes 
much injected. She brings her four feet together, arches 
