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which appears lifeless, and the phalanges are excessively- 

 flexed. When the leg is artificially placed in a normal 

 position it is capable of supporting weight. 



Palpation. — The muscles are flabby, and the sensibility 

 of the skin of the leg is absent. 



Fig. 15. 

 Incomplete crural paralysis. From an instantaneous photograph. 



3.— Crural Nerye. 



Inspection {complete paralysis).— li is impossible for the 

 animal to support any weight with the lame leg, and any 

 attempt in that direction is immediately followed by extreme 

 flexion of all joints, — that is, the leg collapses. 



Palpation. — The skin on the inside of the thigh loses its 

 sensibility. 



