300 THREE CASES OF FRACTURE OF THE TIBIA. 
lower portion of the upper third of the bone anteriorly, 
obliquely downward and backward. No displacement having 
taken place, we immediately had the horse slung, the broken 
limb rendered, as far as possible, immovable, and applied 
cooling lotions. 
In four weeks the improvement was so great that the 
owner caused one of his sons to unsling the horse, and take 
him out, and next day put him to some gentle work. The 
consequence was that the newly united fracture gave way, and 
the poor brute, through the owner's rashness, had other seven 
weeks of the slings to endure : at the end of which time, how- 
ever, he was discharged almost sound. Of course, owing to the 
fresh breaking up of the fracture, a good deal of exostosis 
existed along the line of the union, which, however, after a 
blister somewhat decreased, and the slight lameness entirely 
disappeared. In this case, as in that of “ Qusesitor,'' the 
bones were not displaced, but the bony enlargement remaining 
clearly showed the diagnosis to have been correct. 
Case 2 occurred after I came to this district, in the 
month of June, 1865. A favorite black Clydesdale mare, 
belonging to a landed proprietor near this, was found one 
morning standing in a corner of the park, in which, along 
with her fellow, she was accustomed to remain during the 
night, with an extensive and deep cut or tear immediately 
below the stifle joint. On being called, and after minutely 
examining the wound, I found it to be what is called a com- 
pound comminuted fracture ; for not only was there evidently 
a fracture, but there were also several small detached pieces 
of bone to be felt. I had the mare immediately, and as 
gently as possible, removed home to the farm steading, 
cleaned the wound well out, opened it well down to the bone, 
and dissected out three small pieces of detached bone, 
somewhere about the tibial ridge, anteriorly on the upper 
third of the bone. I then drew the edges of the external 
wound firmly together with fine metallic sutures, planned and 
applied a cradle of splints to the leg to prevent, as far as 
possible, any motion, ordered cooling applications externally, 
and Potass, nit. and Antim. tart, internally. 
At the end of eight weeks the mare's leg was nearly as 
well as ever it was, with the exception of a small enlarge- 
ment and occasional purulent discharges just opposite the 
place where the three pieces of bone were excised ; two 
smart applications of Ung. hydrarg. bin. iod. got rid of both 
the enlargement and discharge. At the present time, a casual 
observer would fail to distinguish which leg was fractured. 
In this case, also, notwithstanding the shattered state of a 
