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brought to llie infirmary and put under treatment, which 
was essentially the same as that recorded by me last year, 
although some of the details were somewhat varied ; and I 
am happy to be in a position to state that on Saturday 
last, after being with me five weeks, she was returned 
to her owner’s stable perfectly recovered. This morning 
he called to thank me for the trouble I had taken in 
restoring to him his favorite, when he also made me a hand¬ 
some present by way of fee. 
Four of the other cases referred to died, but the other I 
have not yet heard the result of. 
Having been fortuiiate in the treatment of the last two 
cases of this dreadful malady, it gives one hope of further 
suceess, and it goes to prove that we are not retrograding. 
I would, by way of encouragement and warning to the 
young members of the profession, say, don’t be in a hurry 
to condemn an animal for destruction. 
SUPPOSED EFFECTS OF THE ALSIKE CLOVER 
ON HORSES. 
By E. Wheeler, M.R.C.V.S., Rookley, Isle of Wight. 
A FEW cases have come under my notice during the last 
year or two of horses having sore lips, nose, mouth and 
tongue, likewise of the heels and around the coronet, and I 
am inclined to think that it results from eating a new kind 
of clover lately introdueed into the island, and which, I think, 
is new to England. The first case I saw was two years ago, 
and I at once pronounced the clover to be the cause. I have 
seen several more cases this year, arising, as I believe, from the 
animals eating the same kind of clover. I«nm not acquainted 
with its botanical name, but here it is called alsike clover.^’ 
How it produces these sores, or what principle in it causes 
them, I am not prepared to say; but it seems that the lips 
and around the nostrils are the first places affected, from 
coming into contact with the food, and a few days after sores 
show themselves on other parts. These are by no means 
diffieult to get rid of, as, after changing the food and ex¬ 
hibiting a little cooling medicine, they soon heal up. 
I have sent 3 'OU a sample of the clover. It is similar to 
the broad-leafed, except the bloom, which is more like the 
Duteh, tinged a little with pink. It is possible I have dis¬ 
covered a ‘^mare^s nest but not seeing nor hearing of its 
