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apparently free from acute pain. The slings to be slackened 
for two or three hours daily. 
14th. — Less swelling. Slings to he removed entirely for 
wo hours. 
15th. — Wound in front of hock healed ; leg less swollen. 
27th. — Was led out of box to-day for the first time, and 
appeared to walk firm and well. 
6th January. — No perceptible lameness in his walk, but 
slightly lame when trotted. Exostosis on inside of thigh not 
so large as might be expected. Discharged. 
The owner was so pleased with the case that soon after 
the horse reached his stables he, somewhat prematurely, put 
him in harness, and, with the exception of a little shyness, 
found him go remarkably well. 
It will be seen that only five and twenty days after the 
injury was received the patient could bear a certain amount 
of his weight on the leg, and that only fifty days elapsed 
before he could use it quite well. 
I am quite prepared to find that many who may read this 
case will be sceptical as to whether the leg was broken at all, 
and inasmuch as, as far as I know, that this is the first case of 
the kind on record, their doubts will not be unreasonable, as 
we have certainly very limited data to go by. 
I believe that a human patient, similarly afflicted, is seldom 
allowed to move, even with the aid of crutches, much under 
two months; but here we have an animal actually taking 
strong exercise within that time. 
The result shows what nature will or can do when judiciously 
assisted by art, and it may, perhaps, be the means of saving 
more than one animal which would otherwise have been de- 
stroyed. 
ACUTE INFLAMMATION OF THE HEART. 
By Alfred Broad, M.R.C.V.S., Paddington. 
On the 9th of August last a well-bred bay mare, five years 
old, belonging to Messrs. Gough and Co., St. John’s Wood, 
was brought to the infirmary, presenting the following symp- 
toms : — She was very weak, and reeled in walking, so much 
so that she nearly fell several times on the road. The pulsa- 
tions were 80 in the minute, and so weak as to be scarcely 
distinguishable; the heart’s action could not be felt; the 
