474 SUPPLEMENT. 



^' tary lameness'' in the hip-joint is described 

 in the third case, that has a very short time 

 since lost his life, after being totally ruined 

 by a broken knee, received upon a project- 

 in<^ flint in the road between Henley and 

 Wargrave, that, separating the ligamentary 

 union of articulation at the joint, not onlv 

 produced an immediate hourly increasing in- 

 flammatory and incredible enlargement of the 

 zvho/e limh, but a fixed contraction (without 

 the power af even resting the foot on the 

 i^routid), in opposition to every attempt to 

 relieve, by three of the most eminent prac- 

 tioners in the centre of the royal studs, when, 

 after the fairest exertions for some weeks, 

 he was unavoidably doomed to the death it 

 was impossible to prevent. 



A second, much more severe in external 

 appearance than the foregoing, was a bred 

 mare (got by an Arabian, late in possession 

 Qf vSir T. Rumbold, now of his Royal High- 

 ness the Prince of Wales), the property of 

 the owner of the farcy mare (described in 

 case the second), and was attended with equal 

 success ; for although the integument and 

 soft part»s of the knee were entirely destroy-* 



