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counteracting and destroying all foul and morbid secretions 
and eman^^tions from animals. Being in those compounds 
combined with substances destitute of deleterious properties, 
it can with perfect safety be administered in every form of 
disease, whether external or internal. 
Taking advantage of these facts, I have for several years 
back employed the alkaline permanganates in the well known 
commercial form of Condy's Fluid,^^ in a great variety of 
diseases of domestic animals, with the most satisfactory 
results. In such cases as grease and farcy in the horse, 
distemper in the dog, mouth and foot disease in the ox, foot- 
rot, &c., in the sheep, Condy^s Fluid has proved in my hands 
eminently efficacious. 
Trusting that these few lines may have the effect of in¬ 
ducing others to give this valuable preparation a fair trial, as 
a remedial substance in veterinary medicine, as well as a 
deodorizer and disinfectant. 
I remain, Sirs, &c., &c. 
To the Editors of ‘ The Veterinarian^ 
COMPLICATED DIFFICULT PARTURITION IN A 
MARE. 
By R. Littler, M.R.C.V.S., Long Clawson. 
At 4 a.m. of the 17th of April, 1859, a large, half-bred 
mare, ten years old, the property of Mr. George Swain, of 
Branstone, Leicestershire, was noticed to be unable to foal. 
I was immediately sent for to assist her, and was in attend¬ 
ance as soon as the distance of seven miles on an ordinary 
hack would admit. The mare I found in a straw yard, being 
kept incessantly moving, in order to avert or mitigate the 
violent throes of parturition, which had now existed about 
two hours and a half. Protruding from between the labia 
pubendi, during each throe, were the mare’s urinary bladder 
and three foetal feet. The former was completely inverted, 
and, from its elastic or yielding nature, apparently contained 
gas on its peritoneal surface, distending it to the size of an 
inflated small sheep^s bladder. It was not, however, observed 
to have been injured, either by exposure to the air, or by the 
repeated and forcible compression to which it had been 
subjected by the foetal extremities during the parturient 
paroxysms. Its mucous membrane was not the least dis¬ 
coloured, being clean and shining, without the slightest 
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