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About a week ago it was clipped, and in the course of four 
or five days after the operation, it was observed to shrink 
very much if the groom or any one attempted to handle it; 
and this morning it was found so much worse in the above 
respect, that I was requested to attend it. 
<c 1. The pulse and respirations are normal. 
“2. The appetite is by no means good. It eats a little now 
and then ; neither does it partake of much water. 
“ 3. The dung it parts with is dry-looking and scanty, and the 
urine is also scanty and thick. 
“ 4. It is very much afraid of being handled. If I attempt 
to lay my hands upon it, it retreats to the far end of 
the stall, and gathers itself together. 
“5. Upon the skin in the region of the neck, also between 
the inner surfaces of the fore limbs, upon the sides of 
the abdomen, under the abdomen, upon the haunches, 
and around the hind limbs, are a great number of hard 
elevations about the size of a small pea. 
“ 6. The fore limbs are swollen from the knees downwards, 
and the hind limbs from the hocks downwards, and 
within the hollow of the heel of the right fore limb is 
a deep crack or fissure which stretches across the skin 
and discharges an offensive matter, the left heel is also 
slightly chapped. 
cf It is difficult to accurately determine the cause of the 
attack in the present case, unless it arose from the sudden 
exposure of the skin. Previous to its being clipped, it w r as 
perfectly healthy; and since then it has been regularly used 
and fed as before, while the weather has remained upon the 
whole very fine (considering the period of the year) during 
the last six or eight days.” 
Treatment, homoeopathic. 
Seventh among the enumerated Ci Diseases of the Skin ” 
stands Scarlatina: for the first notice, or, what people are so 
fond of calling, the “ discovery,” of which, the veterinary 
world are indebted to Mr. Percivall. Mr. Haycock says, “ his 
(Mr. P.’s) description, however, is very incomplete, and, as a 
matter of course, very unsatisfactory.” And well it might 
be, Or, at least, less complete than the one before us, Mr. P.s 
account having been written in 1840, and Mr. H.’s in 1850; 
ten years of observation and experience and reading having 
