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Mr. Morgan read a letter from a friend upon disease of the heart 
in a black mare six years oid. 
Messrs. Haycock and Taylor alluded to a case of heart disease. 
Mr. Lawson mentioned a case of a valuable heifer, which con¬ 
stantly strained in consequence of the existence of a large tumour 
in the uterus. 
Mr. Haycock dwelt on the importance of taking the pulse in cases 
of examination. 
Mr. F. Taylor brought an interesting case of fracture of the ulna 
before the meeting: 
He was requested by Mr. C. Shiers to go to Stratford and examine 
his blood mare’s fore limb for lameness. On his arrival he found the 
mare exceedingly lame of the right fore limb. He carefully examined 
the limb, and ascertained the cause of lameness to be fracture of the 
ulna. Mr. Taylor informed the owner that the mare was also suf¬ 
fering from a poison. He inquired what poison. The answer was, 
“ Glanders poison.” The mare, by being kept perfectly quiet, and 
upon sawdust, and the limb being kept fomented with cold water, 
was, in the space of ten weeks, able to walk into Manchester to 
Mr. Shier’s town stables. Mr. Taylor attended her more or less 
until November 19th; then she died from glanders, A dissection 
of the limb was made, and a transverse fracture of the ulna detected, 
about two inches below the olecranon. This case was rather pe¬ 
culiar from the extension of the transverse fracture throughout the 
strongest part of the ulna. In most cases the ulna has been frac¬ 
tured obliquely. Tliere was an appearance of every effort being 
made by nature to unite the fractured bone, but not successfully, 
the osseous tissue being soft and spongy. 
Mr. Greaves also read an interesting paper entitled The Grass- 
sod 
The somewhat singular heading of this case may excite a smile; 
but the case being one of those mysterious yet deeply instructive 
ones which occasionally come under the notice of the veterinary 
surgeon, I feel sure its relation cannot fail to be interesting. Some 
time during last summer I was requested by a friend of mine, a 
veterinary surgeon, to see a carriage-horse, which was then very low 
and weak. He had been ailing a long time, but at no time did 
there appear to be any active organic disease going on. 
The horse had no cough, the pulse was natural, the breathing was 
also natural, and the breath sweet; bowels were acting regularly 
and satisfactorily ; no diabetes ; but still the horse ate little, and at 
times loathed all food. He was, as it is called, ‘‘ miposing,” and 
had no inclination to eat, drink, or exercise himself, though he 
carried his head well up and looked pretty lively. He had been ill 
six months, and had become almost a skeleton, being so weak that 
he could not be exercised. His teeth had been examined, and mild 
physic, alterative medicine, quantities of antacids, courses of mine- 
