LUXATIONS. 



mon occurrence in running dogs, especially greyhounds, 

 easily reduced, but is very apt to return. 



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It is 



DISLOCATION OF THE CERVICAL VERTEBRAE WITHOUT FRACTURE. 



An animal, in August 1871, was found unable to rise one 

 morning, but with some assistance was got on to its feet, when the 

 neck, which had been previously all right, presented the apj)ear- 

 ance shown in the annexed woodcut (Fig. 18). Four days after- 

 wards it was sent to the College, a distance of about two miles, 

 for my opinion. The animal (an old mare) walked with a slight 

 staggering gait, knuckled over occasionally at the fetlocks, could 

 eat well, and move the head up and down with a moderate 

 degree of freedom. There was no swelling of the soft parts from 

 bruising or inflammation, the prominence of the curve being 



Fig. 18. 



hard bone. Upon attempting to straighten the neck, the animal 

 would become paralyzed in the limbs, this paralysis passing away 

 when the pressure was removed from the neck. Being very old, 

 she was ordered to be destroyed. Wlien the neck was stretched 



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