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the limb, for about two months. I also gave tonic medicines. 
The foot got better, but the enlargement of the leg, and dis¬ 
eased state of the skin, continued to increase until the 
animal was destroyed. 
[It is rarely that an animal is allowed to live sufficiently 
long for disease of a limb to be developed to an equal extent 
as in this instance. The morbid production was mostly of a 
fibrinous nature, as shown on section. It involved the bone, 
periosteum, tendinous and ligamentous structures, as well as 
the common integument. Sinuses ran through its sub¬ 
stance in several places down to the bone, and the discharge 
which came from them had a most fetid character. Its 
greatest development was in front of the coronet, and at its 
largest part it measured fifty-one inches in circumference. 
The weight of this cumbersome mass of disease was no less 
than eighty-one pounds.] 
Facts and Observations. 
PHIZES OFFERED BY THE ACADEMY OF MEDICINE OF 
BRUSSELS. 
The value of comparative pathology in advancing the 
healing art would seem to be more correctly appreciated 
abroad than at home, as we observe among the prizes offered 
by the Academy of Medicine of Brussels, that several relate 
directly to veterinary science, namely: 
“ Determine the Nature and Etiology of the Morbid 
States of the Horse included under the vague name of 
Influenza; point out the relation they may have with Typhoid 
Affections in Man, and the Treatment best suited for such 
States : a gold medal of £40.” Before the 1st of July, 1861 : 
“Determine by new Experiments upon Mammalia, the Rela¬ 
tions existing between the Oxygen absorbed by the Lungs 
and the Carbonic-acid Gas exhaled by the Skin; settle the 
amount of Influence exerted by this exchange by Rest, 
Motion, Temperature, and Fooda gold medal of £ 60 . 
" Describe the Present State of Science as to the Nervous 
Diseases of the Horse, dwelling especially on the differential 
Diagnosis of these Diseasesa gold medal of £32. 
The essays to be sent to the Secretary's office of the 
Academy, Place de Musee, No. 1, Brussels." 
