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with pus. This turned out, therefore, a true case of navicu- 
larthritis, without any external injury being observable. I 
have seen some cases from punctures in the hind feet, but 
not any like the above. 
14th August, 1852. 
*** The above case constitutes a rare exception to a 
general pathological law. It is the only case of the kind that 
has come to our knowledge.— Ed. Vet. 
THE BENGAL STUD HORSES. 
Ungeerabad Cantonment, 
4th June, 1849. 
Sir,—I have the honour to forward to you a few remarks I 
have put together on the present state of our stud horses 
(artillery and cavalry), with a request, should you approve of 
their general tenor, you will be pleased to submit them to 
the authorities. 1 am led. Sir, to trouble you with them, 
convinced that, should you agree with my impression of their 
truth and importance, they could have no more efficient sup¬ 
porter with the Government. 
That the stud horses are, generally, unfit for artillery and 
dragoon service, few who have had any experience in the 
field will deny; and the last campaign has served to confirm, 
in my mind, the impression, that, inferior as the stud horses 
used to be, they are still further deteriorating. I have no hesi¬ 
tation in affirming, that, at the present time, a campaign which 
shall last only a short period, and be attended with no very 
extraordinary severity of work or privation, shall yet be suffi¬ 
cient to prove, still further, the utter worthlessness of the 
majority of stud horses. Under privation and work, with 
exposure, all their bad points are at once laid bare. Their 
thin chests, without breadth and depth ; their long attenuated 
limbs, and the greyhound run of their flanks, proclaim their 
utter deficiency in those points which constitute the beauty 
of the troop horse; while their surliness and irritability of 
temper are wofully increased. 
I am not fully prepared to explain the reasons why horses 
which cost the Government so much, should yet be of so 
little value; for the necessary information is difficult to be ob¬ 
tained by an officer serving with his regiment and at a distance 
