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JEtEPOETS OF CASES 
very great, but with the intelligence and wealth of the great Amer 
can people, in whose dictionary the word “ impossible ” has n 
meaning, they have only to be fully aroused to the importance o 
the subject to have it followed up until no vestage of it remain 
in the country, and such measures enforced in future as will pr( 
vent its reintroduction from abroad, and to this arousing let th 
convention devote themselves. 
REPORTS OF CASES, 
MALIGNANT WOUNDS OF FRONT LIMB. 
By W. H. Gkibble, D.Y.S. 
Inclosed find description of case which is very puzzling to me 
as to the cause. 
The farm on which it occurred was rolling land, with a gooi 
creek running quite swiftly through it; the horse had not beei 
stabled, the weather was not wetter than our usual summers. 
Several times since the death of the animal, the owner ant 
several neighbors have asked me, and have hinted that such mus 
be the fact, viz.: That the calomel which was given the horse, arr 
his then getting wet, caused the trouble. 
I can find no such action of any preparation of hydrarg. 
A gray gelding, thirteen years old, fifteen and one-half hand 
high, quite poor (no external signs of melonosos), had workc 
hard from spring until the first part of July, when he was turne« 
to pasture, and instead of becoming lively, as was usual with bio 
on resting, he became languid, dull, with changeable appetite, coe 
tinued loss of flesh, and when put to any work seemed unable t<j 
perform it, and what was peculiar, he would stand for hours ii 
water knee deep. 
This went on for four months, when we were called. W* 
found the animal constipated-anoemic and with upper molars ver 
sharp, in fact, so much so that callous places had formed oi 
mucous membrane of mouth; pulse and temperature a littli 
elevated; could find no abnormal heat about the feet, whicl 
standing in water led us to suspect. 
