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which was secured in a natural vertical position, radial paralysis 

 of a mild form was of frequent occurrence. Country practi- 

 tioners, in restraining colts by casting with harness or ropes, 

 occasionally observe a form of paresis wherein the radial nerve 

 suffers sufficient injury that there is caused a temporary loss of 

 function of the triceps brachii. Such cases recover within three 



Fig. 8 — Radial paralysis. 



or four days and are not a true paralysis, but nevertheless con- 

 stitute conditions wherein normal nerve function is temporarily 

 suspended. 



Symptoms. — Immediately subsequent to injuries which in- 

 volve the radial nerve, there is manifested more or less impair- 

 ment of function. Remembering the structures supplied by the 

 radial nerve and its branches, one can readily understand that 

 there should occur as Cadiot^ has stated : 



^As quoted bv Bcrns, in Radial Paralysis, etc., Proceedings of the A. V. 

 ivr. A., 1912. 



