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suited, we advised that the nerves going to the foot should 
be divided, which was done. After this she continued to go 
comparatively sound for about three years, when she again 
became lame. It was now determined to breed from her; 
and the filly, whose case we have recorded, was her first 
produce. Now, it becomes a question, and a very important 
one to breeders of horses, whether the disease in the off fore 
foot of the mare had any influence in the production of the 
deformitv of the off fore foot of the foal? It would be well if 
the members of our profession, and also breeders of horses, 
would collect information sufficient either to negative or 
confirm this point, for of course it would apply to other con¬ 
genital deformities. 
POISONING OF PIGS WITH COMMON SALT. 
By W. Robinson, M.R.C.Y.S., Tamworth. 
Gentlemen, —When I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. 
Alfred Taylor and yourselves at the Court of Examiners of the 
R.C.Y.S., I mentioned the circumstance of seven pigs having 
been poisoned by common salt taken in their food. Dr. A. 
Taylor then stated that he had made an analysis of their 
stomachs and the food, and found a large quantity of salt, 
but no mineral poison. From his observations I was led to 
think that ihese Mere the first cases of pig poisoning by 
common salt which had come under his notice. 
In accordance M’ith my promise to send you a short history 
of these cases, I will endeavour briefly to state the facts as 
they occurred. On the evening of the 3d of November, 
1858, I Mas hastily called to Byrkely Lodge, to examine and 
give an opinion respecting seven pigs, belonging to M. T. 
Bass, Esq., M.P. for Derby. Four of them were store pigs, 
and three fat ones. Three of the store pigs were found dead 
in the morning, and the other one, suffering from spasm and 
pain, M*as destro} T ed. The three fat ones M ere slaughtered in 
the usual way. From their appearance and symptoms being 
like the others, it M as supposed that they M ere labouring under 
the influence of some deadly poison, M'hich had been mali¬ 
ciously mixed u ith their food on the preceding night. 
Upon this statement I examined the three fat pigs and 
their stomachs, and the latter organs showed ample traces of 
acute gastritis. 
The four stomachs of the pigs M’hich died M’ere in a similar 
