RUPTURE OF THE GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE. 375 



" Treatment. — In about two hours after ,he came home, I took four 

 quarts of blood from him, gave some physic, and ordered fomen- 

 tations. 



^' 22f?. — I found him ahnost as lively as usual : — continue fomen- 

 tions, and keep him quiet. 



" 25^A. — From the last date to this we continued to foment and 

 keep him quiet. The wound in his breast is going on satisfactorily, 

 and no doubt will do well. I now blistered the front of the hock 

 and thigh to keep him quiet, and put on a cross line to the back 

 of the fetlock and over the neck, so as to bring the divided parts 

 into apposition. I also put on a patten shoe raised four inches, 

 but we found he would not stand on it, but knuckled over, and 

 most likely would have injured himself, so I took it off. After 

 this he was merely kept quiet, and on the 20th Jan. 1841, was 

 ridden out, and little was found to be the matter with him. He is 

 now as well as ever, has been hunted several times since, and is 

 regularly ridden. 



" Ther.e was a case exactly similar to this when I was at the Col- 

 lege last year, but how it occurred I do not know : it was sent 

 out, after being kept there about three weeks, as incurable. 

 What became of it I know not, but I should like to be informed 

 whether it ever got well. About the same time there was in the 

 College a case of rupture of the lateral ligaments, or side of the 

 gastrocnemius internus tendon where it is attached to the side 

 of the OS calcis ; and the consequence was, that the tendon slipped 

 into the hollow, on the outside, below the os calcis and tibia." 



Rupture of the Gastrocnemius Muscle. 



Whether the annexed case be similar to the foregoing one, or be 

 such as I at the time named it, I shall leave my reader to determine. 



A 20, black troop-horse, four years of age, in the act of longeing 

 early in the morning of the 16th of May, 1843, fell forward upon 

 his head and knees, leaving his hind limbs sprawling in an ex- 

 tended position behind him. He lay for a couple of seconds, then 

 rose up, and walked twice round the longe. Finding, however, 

 that he had lamed himself in one of his legs, the rough-rider, 

 who had been longeing him, returned him to his stable. At 

 nine o'clock A.M. I had him led out in hand. He walked tolerably 



