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rapid gait becomes quite impossible, and tlie walk as in some few otber 

 diseases becoaies sufficiently characteristic to warrant a diagnosis even 

 when observed from a distance. An entire dropping of the anterior 

 part of the trunk becomes manifest, and no weight is carried on the 

 disabled side, in consequence of the loss of action in the suspensory 

 muscles. There are often heat, pain, and swelling in the muscular mass 

 at the elbow, though at times a hollow or depression may be observed 

 near the posterior border of the scapula, which is probably the seat of 

 injury. 



These hurts are of various degrees of importance, varying from mere 

 minor casualties of quick recovery to lesions which are of sufficient se- 

 verity to render an animal useless and valueless for life. 



The prime elements of treatment, which should be strictly observed, 

 are rest and quiet. Prescriptions of all kinds, however, of course, have 

 their advocates. Among them are ether, chloroform, camphor, alco- 

 holic frictions, warm fomentations, blisters, setons, etc. But, unless the 

 conclusions of experience are to be ignored, our own judgment is de- 

 cisive in favor of rest, judiciously applied; and our view of what con- 

 stitutes a judicious application of rest has been more than once presented 

 in these pages. There are degrees of this rest. One contemplates 

 simple immobility in a narrow stall. Another means the enforced mo- 

 bility of the slings and a narrow stall as well. Another a box stall, with 

 ample latitude as to i^osture and space, and option to stand up or lie 

 down. As wide as this range may appear to be, radical recovery has 

 occurred under all of these modified forms of Icttlnj our patients alone. 



Hip lameness. — The etiology of injuries and diseases of the hip is one 

 and the same with that of the shoulder. The same causes operate and 

 the same results follow. The only essential change, with an important 

 exception, which would be necessary in passing from one region to the 

 other in a description of its anatomy, its pbysiology, and its pathology, 

 would be a substitution of a-natomical names in referring to celtain 

 bones, articulations, muscles, ligaments, and membranes concerned in 

 the injuries and diseases described. It would be only a useless repeti- 

 tion to cover again the ground over which we have so recently passed 

 in recital of the manner in which certain forms of external violence 

 (falls, blows, kicks, etc.) result in other certain forms of lesion (luxation, 

 fracture, periostitis, ostitis, etc.), and to recapitulate the items of treat- 

 ment and the names of the medicaments proper to use. The same rules 

 of diagnosis and the same indications and prognosis are applicable 

 equally to every portion of the organism, with only such modifications 

 in applying dressings and a£)paratus as may be required by differences 

 of conformation and other minor circumstances, which must suggest 

 themselves to the judg ment of every experienced observer when the oc- 

 casion arrives for its exercise. 



There is an exception to be made, while considering the subject in 

 connection with the region now under advisemeut, in respect to the for- 



