SCOTTISH METROPOLITAN VETERINARY ASSOCIATION. 865 
Professor Walley gave notice that at the next meeting he 
would bring forward a motion relative to the fees for examina¬ 
tion as to soundness, stating that, without entering at present 
on the subject, there was great need for reform in the matter. 
Bor the first time the introduction of reports of interesting cases 
formed a regular part of the proceedings. 
Mr. Borthwick brought forward a case on which he was at 
present engaged. A four-year-old valuable cart-horse was bought 
from a dealer at a fair, in a neighbouring town, on the 10th July. 
He did but little work afterwards, having a slight touch of cold; 
but on the 29th of the same month Mr. Borthwick, on being 
called in, found him affected with tetanus. On inquiry as to the 
cause, the man in charge at once said there had been some warts 
or angle-berries, as they are called, cut off from his belly, and on 
examination Mr. Borthwick found three distinct patches on the 
belly, and one on the shoulder, from which warts had evidently 
been recently removed, one of them, in particular, being raw, 
suppurating, bulging out, and covered with a hardened scab or 
crust. The horse was treated in the usual way, viz. rest, quiet, 
slings, belladonna, &c., with poultices, &c., to the raw parts. He 
rallied a little at first, but relapsed and died on the 7th August. 
Mr. Borthwick had given it as his opinion that the removal of 
the warts was the cause of lock-jaw, and that whoever had caused 
them to be taken off was liable for the price of the animal, and 
in consequence the gentleman who bought the horse intended to 
pursue the dealer at law for the amount. After repeated in¬ 
quiries it had transpired that the horse had passed through two 
other dealers' hands the day before the fair, while the party from 
whom the horse was originally bought admitted having caused 
the warts to be cut off, but stated that it had been done as far 
back as January last. Mr. Borthwick now exhibited part of the 
skin of the belly and shoulder, and asked those present for their 
candid opinion of the case, and what course they would advise 
his client to take. After a careful examination it was the unani¬ 
mous opinion of the members that the warts had been removed 
or at least treated with caustic, within a month from the present 
date, and that, in the absence of any other apparent cause it was 
reasonable and just to conclude that that was the cause of the 
lock-jaw ; but, considering the “ glorious uncertainty of the law,” 
it would be better to try, if possible, to compromise the case 
before entering on legal proeeedings. 
Professor Walley then read an account of a case of “ Practure 
of the Inferior Maxilla of a Mare, followed by Cerebral Symp¬ 
toms and Heath,” the particulars of which had been communi¬ 
cated to him by Mr. Aitkin, of Dalkeith, who attended the 
animal. 
