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small portion of the bone at the superior and anterior part 
of the fracture, the actual displacement was scarcely percep- 
tible ; and this was the more to be wondered at when the 
frightful external wound was looked at. 
Case 3 occurred about fifteen years ago in a well-bred bay 
mare, the property of a sporting gentleman in Aberdeen- 
shire. My father was called to this case, and considering 
it, from all the symptoms, a fracture of the tibia, had the 
mare slung, &c., and left word that, owing to the owner’s 
absence, he would attend again next day. The owner re- 
turned same night, however, and finding his mare in slings 
with (as the groom told him) a broken leg, got in a towering 
passion, examined the leg himself, found no signs of such a 
thing as a fracture, ordered the mare to be taken out of the 
slings, and turned into a small park near the stable. Next 
morning the mare was found standing at the park gate with 
the leg swinging about, quite useless ; the pieces of the bone 
making the fracture had become displaced, and the end of 
one of them was sticking out through the skin. The poor 
mare was immediately shot. 
Remarks . — In recording these cases I have not thought it 
necessary to give the symptoms exhibited, as they were pre- 
cisely similar to those so explicitly detailed by “ Qusesitor 
and I have no doubt but many a practitioner could bring for- 
ward like cases of the diagnosis of which he had not the least 
doubt. Fracture of the tibia in cattle is very common ; I 
had three cases of it during the last season, and they all did 
well. In such cases, however, complete displacement almost 
always takes place, and it is sometimes a difficult matter 
to get the fracture properly placed or set again. 
FRACTURE OF THE OS PEDIS. 
By J. B. Coleman, M.R.C.Y.S., Sheffield. 
An accident, involving fracture of the pedal bone, having 
recently occurred in the practice of the veterinary surgeon 
with whom I am engaged — Mr. Cartledge — I have been led 
to think that, in consequence of the exceptional nature of 
the fracture, and the specimen being unique in his collection, 
a report of the case would not be utterly devoid of interest to 
the readers of the Veterinarian. 
The animal which sustained the injury alluded to was a 
powerful cart-horse, which was daily employed in the process 
of shunting railway trucks. Whilst so engaged, one of his 
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