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lysis 55 of the hinder quarter, meaning that the patient is 
unable to stand without the assistance of slings, or without 
resting his thighs against a wall or bar, and that wffien made to 
progress, he reels from one side to the other, and is in danger 
of falling at every step. He is gradually improving, but 
there is not the slightest clue to the cause or causes to be 
gleaned. The probability is that he sustained a severe sprain 
in the lumbar region, whilst rising or rolling when his legs 
were confined by heel-ropes. Two days ago a native shoeing 
smith asserted that a horse fell in the shoeing shed on the 
head of a pair of pincers, and severely injured his shoulder; 
another native swore the smith struck him with a hammer. 
This is the description of evidence, if there is any at all, 
that we have to go upon; therefore, we seldom arrive at 
truthful histories. 
It was our intention to conclude here, but being under 
orders to assume the charge of another division by reason 
of the annual reliefs, it will perhaps be advisable to condense 
our records on “ Fractures/ 5 and add them to the foregoing, 
lest we should not find ourselves in a sufficiently communi- 
cative mood, in other quarters, to send a separate paper. 
No. 1. Comminuted fracture of the right radius about two 
inches above the radio-carpal articulation, sustained by a 
kick from a horse in the team of the same gun, whilst at 
drill. 
No. 2 was admitted with a contused and lacerated wound 
in the region of the right femoro-tibiai articulation, received 
in the same accident that fractured the rider's leg. This 
horse carried one of the picketing party, who preceded 
a battery on the march by about twelve hours. It was re- 
ported the patient fell over a heap of stones in the dark. 
Perhaps he did ! Eight hours after the accident,. tumefaction 
of the injured parts was so extensive as to render a satisfactory 
diagnosis difficult. It was ascertained that the patella was 
severely cut, and that the flesh wounds were deep, but that 
the joint was not penetrated. Fracture was neither diagnosed 
nor suspected. Pain and lameness were excessively severe, 
and neither were improved by the animal being marched 
eighty-five miles subsequently to the accident. In about 
twenty days the wound healed under ordinary treatment, but 
an enlargement of an indurated nature had formed and con- 
tinued to increase. A succession of blisters might have 
arrested what was now becoming an abnormal growth, but they 
did not diminish it or tend to improve the case in any way. 
Lameness increased because the action of the complex 
joint was mechanically interfered with. The patient being 
