RETROSPECTS OF VETERINARY PRACTICE. 
297 
was of opinion that roaring in many instances was prevented by 
such active treatment. Since then I have used the iron pretty 
freely in cases of chronic sore throat, and I have found the 
treatment clearly to have had a very good effect in allaying 
or rather cutting short the cough, and I do not think roaring 
has been so common a termination of sore throat as formerly. 
In horses with a certain conformation of neck I have 
found roaring follow an attack of the throat, in spite even of 
a second application of the iron. A case of this description 
has been under my observation for upwards of four years. 
RETROSPECTS OF VETERINARY PRACTICE* 
By “ Mentor.” 
LAMENESS ARISING FROM DISEASE OF THE LIVER. 
(Continuedfrom p. 224.) 
The following case presents some peculiarities : 
December 7th, 1861.—A chestnut mare, five years old, 
15*2 hands high, nearly thorough-bred, belonging to a 
hunting farmer, had been purchased six weeks prior to the 
above date, and shortly afterwards fell lame, for which a 
liberal application of goose grease , applied twice a day to the 
withers, shoulders, elbows, &c., in seriatim , had failed to effect 
a cure, when on the present date my attendance was re¬ 
quested. 
The animal was rather low in condition, but this was 
ascribed to severe hunting over a heavy country, her breed, 
and the fact that she had walked some distance ; also that she 
had been in the hands of a not over-respectable dealer previous 
to the present owner becoming possessed of her. 
I had her run out, both on grass and the road, but the 
lameness was in no wise altered by the change. In the walk 
it was not observable , an*d most apparent in the trot; but in the 
gallop I could detect a peculiar holding back of the whole 
shoulder, which in the trot merged into a modified lift, when 
the limb was brought forward. 
However, in no other respect could I detect any want of 
flexion or extension, no stiffness, no undue action, no 
injury to muscle or tendon, &c., except a slight enlargement 
upon the antero-external portion of the radius above the knee, 
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