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Observation IX, 



A horfe was lame for four months ; he was 

 drefled at firfl above the leg, and afterwards ia 

 the foot, but his fole was not drawn •, I judged 

 him incurable, as I fufpeded an anchylofis, 

 and he was put to death. I difledled the foot, 

 and found the foot or coffin-bone fra6lured in 

 two, in which fradture the anchylofis began to 

 be formed, as well as the offification between 

 the coronary, nut and coffin-bones. The frac- 

 ture croiTed diametrically one of the cavi- 

 ties of the articulation, and ended towards 

 the middle of the toe or point of the foot- 

 bone. So that this bone appeared to be di- 

 vided obliquely into two unequal parts -, It is 

 not unlikely that the horfe had trod upon a 

 flone which raifed one fide of his foot more 

 than the other, and which, joined to the weight 

 of his body, caufed this oblique fradure -, al- 

 though the foot was in a perpendicular direc- 

 tion: thisisthefecond fra^lure of this fort I have 

 met with; and it is curable if fpeedily taken in 

 hand. I have already feveral feet, which arc 

 ofllfied like this. 



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