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related ; one, where the animal when resting at night was accus¬ 
tomed to place a fore-leg on the manger and drop the head on it; 
the other, when taken to the forge to be shod, being unable to 
bear the raising of either hind limb, always lying down quietly 
and allowing the removal and refitting of the shoes. 
Mr. F. J. Mavor then read an extract from the Medical Times 
and Gazette , No. 1134, relating to the hypodermic injection of 
morphia and inhalation of chloroform producing complete 
anaesthesia with a much smaller quantity of chloroform than 
when given alone. He had written in the next number of the 
journal, to the effect that he had for some years employed the 
same method of injecting a full dose of morphia and giving one 
ounce of chloroform, thus producing unbroken sleep, which in 
one case he mentioned lasted nine hours. 
The President then called on Mr. S. Price to read his paper on 
“ Purpura Haemorrhagica.” 
Mr. S. Price, in detailing the forms and character of the 
disease as affecting the horse, described it as a blood affection, or 
morbid condition of the arterial or venous coats. Dwelling on 
the suddenness of its attacking an animal, and the fatal termi¬ 
nation it so often results in, he proceeded to treat of the various 
local evidences of its existence, and the post-mortem appearances, 
instancing the liver as much affected, and ascribing the origin of 
the disease to biliary congestion. The treatment he adopted 
consisted in administering gentle aperients, camphorated turpen¬ 
tine in 5j doses, with gruel every three hours, with a view to 
reduce the swellings, following it up with nitric acid in 3j doses 
twice daily. Pomentation he opposed, preferring to use the 
lancet. 
At the conclusion of his remarks Mr. F. J. Mavor said, he 
held a different opinion to Mr. Price, because the disease affected 
horses in opposite conditions: he was disposed to consider the 
affection due rather to a loss of nerve power, and the consequent 
relaxation of the tissues, having regard to the rapidity with which 
the symptoms change to other parts of the body. 
Mr. Moore observed, that the late Mr. Barlow, veterinary sur¬ 
geon, a good microscopist, held it due to a breaking down of the 
blood discs. 
Mr. Burrell contended, that in that case there was an alteration 
in the specific gravity of the liquor sanguinis. 
Mr. Mavor said, if there be no specific change in the normal 
condition of the blood, why should not the result of the anaemic 
condition be dropsy; or, if the condition be general, why is there 
not general effusion ? 
The President also held it was not a blood disease; he con¬ 
sidered it allied to scurvy in the human subject, save that the 
