DILATATION OF THE HEART. 
690 HYPERTROPHY AND 
depraved appetite, which existed towards the latter part of the 
animaPs illness. She was also found to be pregnant with a 
male foetus, having gone about three months of her time. 
Is it your opinion that Alderneys are more subject to these 
scrofulous affections than other cattle ? I find they cannot 
bear up against disease in an equal manner to our home-bred 
animals. 
[Our experience of cancerous affections among cattle does 
not lead to the conclusion that Alderneys are more frequently 
affected than others. Indeed, we have seen more cases among 
Devons than among any other variety of cattle. The morbid 
specimens sent differed in no respect from ordinary carcino¬ 
matous deposits, even when microscopically examined.] 
HYPERTROPHY AND DILATATION OF THE 
HEART OF A HORSE, ASSOCIATED WITH A 
DISEASED STATE OF THE GLANDULAR 
STRUCTURES. 
By H. W. Dyer, M.R.C.V.S., Waterford. 
The subject of the following observations, was a well-bred 
gelding, sixteen years old. About eleven years ago he was 
sold out of this establishment, and at the time of sale I ex¬ 
amined him as to soundness, and did not discover any disease. 
He was taken to the home of his new owner, and in a day or 
two afterwards a messenger came to inform me the horse was 
lame. Without loss of time I called at the stable to ascertain 
the cause of his lameness, and to remedy the damage, if any 
existed. The horse was certainly very lame in the near fore 
foot, the temperature of which was also much increased. I 
ventured an opinion that the horse must, by some means, 
unknown probably to the groom, have twisted the leg and 
foot so as to put some of the internal structures upon the 
stretch, and thus have caused such sudden and unexpected 
lameness. The ordinary treatment of hot fomentations, &c., 
removed the defect in a few days. 
After this he was regularly hunted for two or three seasons, 
and then turned to harness work. From that period up to 
the time I was sent for to see him, in the month of August 
last, he had enjoyed perfect health. The man who brought 
the summons for me on this occasion, said the horse had caught 
