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rapidly, and went to work in about six weeks from time he 
was first taken. 
Since beginning the use of lithium I have had a number 
of cases of this malady, with only one fatal result. A draft mare 
being brought to the hospital in an ambulance, she was 
dragged to box stall on her side, and expired four hours after¬ 
wards. 
While not claiming that this drug is a specific in this 
trouble, it has certainly given me more satisfaction than any 
other I ever used. If in bringing this subject to your notice 
it is the means of assisting any brother practitioner in the 
treatment of this, the bugbear of all diseases to the profession, 
I will feel that my efforts have not been in vain, and I would 
be most pleased to hear with what success any of you may 
meet after trying the drug. 
SCIATICA. 
By John Soott, Y.S., Peoria, Ill. 
(A paper read before the Illinois State Veterinary Medical Association.) 
During the summer of 1890 I was called upon to treat 
the following case, which I diagnosed as sciatica, and as I 
have only seen two such cases during a practice of six years, 
both of which occurred under conditions almost identical and 
both in horses kept for racing purposes, 1 judge that such 
cases are somewhat rare in our patients. I am forced to this 
conclusion not because I have only been fortunate enough to 
see two cases, but from the fact that in all the works on veteri¬ 
nary science that I have had an opportunity of reading, I fail 
to find such a disease even mentioned, and in our veterinary 
journals the only place I see such a disease referred to is in the 
March 1889 number of the Review, where a case is record¬ 
ed. but that is an extract from a foreign journal. For these 
reasons I call your attention to it to-day, and hope it may 
prove as interesting to you as it did to me. 
T was called to the case on Wednesday, July 22, 1890, 
during our summer race meeting, and on reaching the driving 
