OBSERVATIONS ON INJURIES, ETC., AMONG ARMY HORSES. 269 
bear any weight on the affected limb, which was excessively 
swollen by the fifteenth day. The wound had a very un- 
healthy appearance. 
Altogether the horse was a most miserable-looking object, 
and was destroyed on our recommendation. The metatarsus 
externus, at its upper third, had sustained a compound and 
comminuted fracture, the smaller fragments had been dis- 
charged by the wound, but the main lesion existed and ex- 
tended into the tarso-metatarsal articulation, implicating the 
corresponding facet on the cuboid bone. The metatarsus 
magnus was slightly indented near the anterior edge of the 
small bone, and had evidently only received a trifling share 
of the blow, which must have been delivered from before 
backwards. Had this case recovered so far as the reunion of 
the bone is concerned, we are of opinion that lameness would 
have always rendered the animal unserviceable, as the inner 
surfaces of the tarsal joint would have been materially in- 
volved. The rarity of fracture of the small metatarsal bones 
renders this case very interesting. 
No. 10 was an interesting case of fracture of the right 
tibia, at its lower part, inasmuch as it exemplifies the exist- 
ence of a fracture without displacement. The horse was 
under treatment for a wound on the inner side of the lower 
part of the right tibia. He had been kicked, and the bone 
was severely injured. On the night of the fourth day after 
his admission, though very lame, he attempted to gallop 
about, having broken from his picket. At the first turn he 
came to, which was a sharp one, he fell and sustained a com- 
pound and comminuted fracture of the tibia, the old wound 
being enlarged by the protrusion of the broken end of bone. 
The appearances after death gave satisfactory proof that 
the bone had been so far injured by the kick as to incapaci- 
tate it for withstanding the concussive force communicated 
to the limb in galloping and turning, in fact a fracture 
without displacement had previously existed. 
No. 11 is referred to as “ Horse No. 3,” and was a com- 
minuted fracture of the right os innominata, and differs in 
no particular to the other two cases we have described. 
No. 12. Just as our paper is closed and ready for the mail, 
another case of fracture of the left os innominata occurs. 
The native groom who was on sentry this night, Oct. 16th, 
says he saw the accident happen, and gives the following 
evidence : — “ Horse No. 60 seized the hempen eye fringe 
(which is about ten inches long) of horse No. 28, standing 
on his right. No. 28 ran back, broke his head stall, and set 
himself at liberty, after which he contrived to get his left 
