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recently had another case under treatment, which had a favourable 

 termination : A roan cart mare, five years old, was upright in the 

 stable-yard at night ; in the morning she was quite lame — cause 

 unknown. I saw her a month after the accident : every one who 

 saw her before fancied she was lame in the stifle joint, and she was 

 doctored accordingly. I fixed upon the hock as being the seat of 

 lameness, when I saw her move at a distance, as she could not flex 

 it, and from her hopping when urged to go fast. She straddled with 

 and projected the lame limb out when walking. I could not discover 

 any swelling, only a little heat on the superior part of the inside of 

 the hock, which was blistered high up. After awhile, the tendo 

 Achillis became enlarged : the precise seat of lameness was now 

 apparent. With two months' treatment and rest fr^m the time I first 

 saw her, she was fit for work, being a little stiff", with a straddling 

 gait of the limb*." 



Shoulder Lameness. 



This lameness has already been described in one of the formst — 

 for it has more than one or two, and probably more than three 

 forms — in which it presents itself, under the head of " Lameness 

 arising from Diseases of the Joints and Bursse Mucosae." Shoulder 

 lameness formerly came under our notice as an affection of the bursa 

 or sheath of the tendon of ihe flexor brachii, at the place where the 

 tendon runs within its fibro-cartilaginous canal; wherefrom the dis- 

 ease may (as was shewn then) extend to the scapular joint ; or it 

 may originate in this latter situation, causing ulceration and caries 

 therein, the same as happens in spavin and navicularthritis On 

 the present occasion, shoulder lameness is to be considered as aris- 

 ing from impaired action of the shoulder the effect of some lesion, 

 either laceration, rupture, wound, or contusion, of some one or other 

 of the muscles concerned in its motions. Solleysel, as was observed 

 before, has in his well-known valued work a chapter on " Shoulder- 

 wrench, Shoulder-pight, and shoulder-splait;'' wherein he prefaces 

 his account of these accidents by sagaciously informing his reader 



* Veterinabjan, vol. xxiii, p. 573. 



f In Part I of this volume, at page 234. 



