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hind feet became entangled with the rails, and not being 
able to extricate it quick enough to avoid contact with the 
loaded truck to which he was attached, the truck moved for- 
wards with such force as to cause a complete separation of 
the entire hoof, together with portions of the pedal bone and 
the sensitive structures covering its under and outer surfaces, 
as well as the whole of the sensitive frog, from the other 
parts of the extremity. The secreting or sensitive tissues 
having thus been for the most part torn away, no hope could 
be entertained of the reproduction of the hoof, if the unfortu- 
nate animal were allowed to live, and consequently he was 
at once destroyed. 
A case of a similar character is recorded by Mr. Cartledge 
in the first volume of the Veterinary Record. In this in- 
stance the hoof was, however, detached in such a manner 
as to cause but slight laceration of the sensitive laminae. The 
treatment had recourse to was followed by a rapid reproduction 
of the hoof, and subsequent restoration of the animal to his 
former condition of usefulness. 
I would remark, en parenthese , that the observations re- 
corded by Mr. Cartledge upon this case, which was then said 
to “ stand alone in the annals of veterinary science/’ with 
reference to the agencies concerned in the reproduction of 
the hoof, fully bear out the views advanced by Mr. Broad in 
his article on the “ Physiology of the horny laminse and 
wall of the Foot of the Horse/’ published in the May num- 
ber of the Veterinarian for 1867, in opposition to the opinion 
enunciated by Mr. Greaves in the previous number. The 
latter gentleman contended that the whole of the horn-struc- 
tures proceeded from the coronary villi alone ; while it was 
maintained by Mr. Broad that not only were the coronary villi 
employed in secreting the constituents of the horny fabric, 
but that the vascular and sensitive laminse were also endowed 
with and exercised similar functions. 
A VOICE FROM THE PROVINCES ON THE PRE- 
LIMINARY AND PRACTICAL EXAMINATIONS. 
By M.R.C.V.S. 
It must not for one moment be assumed that the pro- 
vincial practitioner ceases to take an interest in the outward 
progress of his profession as soon as he has received his 
diploma and has quitted his alma mater. There are very 
