228 * NAYIX ON THE HORSE. 



cular, heavy horse, thirteen years old. In this case both the 

 inside and ontside muscles of the shoulder were aifected, the 

 outside presenting a true case of SAveeny, or atrophy of the 

 muscles, but which yielded to outward applications in a short 

 time. The injury occurred in the following manner: The span 

 of horses were hitched to a long rope which was attached to 

 the cars, and the horses then, at a brisk pace, started up the 

 grade, and when they reached the top, at which it was intended 

 to leave the cars, the horses were turned off the track and left 

 standing in a quartering direction. The cars came on, by the 

 force acquired, up near to the horses, but, being still on the 

 grade, instead of stoi)ping, as intended by the driver, they 

 started, and soon the whole force of their backward motion was 

 thrown on the horses with great violence, and that in an ob- 

 lique direction. One of the horses escaped without injury, but 

 the other, the one in question, soon showed that he had been 

 severely "jammed." I was called to see the case, and gave it 

 as my opinion that not only the outer muscles of the shoulder 

 were injured, but also the great saw-muscle, on the inner side, 

 was badly strained. The symptoms of the outer injury, 

 sweeny, were very clear, and I at once commenced the treat- 

 ment of it, and proposed, also, to commence, at the same time, 

 the proper measures for the relief of the other difficulty; but 

 the owner of the horse, being rather chicken-hearted, would 

 not submit to the measures proposed, as it required an opera- 

 tion slightly painful to the horse. The outside muscles soon 

 returned to their proper size, and were in every respect well. 

 But the horse still continued slightly lame, and, on being again 

 put to work, became very lame. I was again applied to. I 

 found no signs of sweeny in the outer muscles, though the 

 horse stood with his foot forward, and in moving would bring 

 it around in a circular motion, evidently to prevent the shoulder 

 from coming close to the body. I proposed the same remedies 

 as before, but the owner still objected. He then commenced 

 trying every quack's nostrum,. and after trying some ten or a 



