266 OBSERVATIONS ON INJURIES; ETC., AMONG ARMY HORSES. 
no use, and of grasses so rough and so poor as to be little 
better than these weeds.” 
On our own; farm we have a pasture on Fuller’s earth 
clay, which, though not very damp, forms a poor pasture, 
white with daisies in spring, and having a tendency to rushes 
and sedges. This grows a quantity of herbage in the month 
of May, but it is nearly all the Bromus mollis — lop grass. 
Here we have lost some two or three sheep from splenic 
apoplexy, which we never did upon sainfoin clovers and 
“ seeds ” of the arable. 
These remarks, then, should show those who have to do 
with animals, that the native herbage of a pasture may have 
specific effects for good or evil upon the animals partaking of 
it. It should also show the farmer that he should distinguish 
not only grasses themselves, but grass allies ; for however 
green a field may look with rough grasses and sedges, or 
however golden with buttercups, all its colour may be due 
to plants which affect stagnant conditions, and which are 
therefore either poor, useless, or positively injurious. 
SYNOPTICAL OBSERVATIONS ON INJURIES, 
ETC., OCCURRING AMONGST ARMY HORSES. 
By “ Hippogriff,” Royal Horse Artillery, India. 
No. 4 fell in a slippery stall on the tuberosity of the right 
ischium, and the trochanterian eminences of the right femur. 
For the cause refer to “ Horse No. 2,” under “ Heel-ropes.” 
Being unable to rise, he was lifted up. Diagnosis was ex- 
ceedingly difficult; but it was conjectured the haunch bones 
were fractured. Examination per rectum afforded no clue, 
even when the limb was moved in various directions. Weight 
could be borne on the leg of the affected quarter, and the 
patient could move about if required, and did so at pleasure, 
being little inconvenienced, apparently, by the movements of 
a slow walk. External manipulation gave the slightest cre- 
pitation, so slight that we sometimes doubted our opinion, 
and this was the main symptom from which to diagnose. In 
this case, as in all similar ones which we have seen, the foot 
was planted flat on the ground, and the limb was a little ad- 
vanced. If the horse be suddenly approached, the leg will be 
snatched up bodily and held there for a time. A difference in 
