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unless he is determined to cling to the unique views put forth 
by him. 
Stringhalt is nob I think, very often witnessed in the fore 
limbs, and yet these sulci are never absent, to my knowledge, 
in the scapulo-humeral and humero-radial articulations. 
But it is asking too much in seeking,to occupy your pages 
by further discussion and reference to books or unpublished 
experience with regard to an affection on the nature of which 
Dr. Busteed has not thrown the faintest light, but, as it 
seems, only made the subject more obscure by the un¬ 
scientific way in which he has treated it, and attempted to 
make himself a discoverer despite the labours of others who 
had thoroughly studied the principles of pathological investi¬ 
gations. 
If one more negative result can indicate tli e probable nature 
of this disease, I may add that an aged horse was destroyed at 
the Edinburgh Veterinary College in consequence of being so 
badly affected with stringhalt as to be perfectly unserviceable. 
Professor Strangeways conducted the post-mortem exami¬ 
nation, and took every possible care to thoroughly investigate 
the various organs and textures of what was a very interesting 
and somewhat rare case. But not a trace of disease or struc¬ 
tural change could be detected in the spinal cord, nerves,blood¬ 
vessels, or muscles; even the astragalus in both hocks was 
healthy, notwithstanding the controverted 'ulceration at the 
bottom of the grooves. 
I am, &c. 
To the Editors of the ‘ Veterinarian 
PYiEMIA IN THE HORSE, THE RESULT OF 
MAL-TREATED STRANGLES. 
By J. G. Cattrall, M.R.C.V.S., London. 
I was requested on the 13th of March last to see a brown 
carriage-horse, five years old, one of the stud of the French 
Ambassador’s, to whom I have the honour of being veterinary 
surgeon. 
On my entering a loose box in which the animal was, 
the following symptoms exhibited themselves :—Intermittent 
rigors, staring coat, cold extremities, respiration much 
hurried, more particularly in the act of inspiration, when a 
convulsive effort was made to cough, preceded by con¬ 
vulsive movements of the voluntary muscles, especially of 
