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quite free from lameness. Cold water bandages were put upon 
the leg, and ordered to be kept wet, but this was neglected : 
when 1 saw him two days after, the leg was much swollen. 1 
repeated warm baths, which soon reduced it to its normal size. 
The wounds suppurated, and at the end of about ten days I had 
him trotted out, when he went away bold and sound. He was 
put to work, and remains up to this time well. 
Case III. — Patient, a brown gelding, aged, the property of 
Messrs. P d and Son, coach proprietors, Bideford ; had been 
worked in the mail ; from that he was taken, and put to 
grass, where I saw him excessively lame in both fore feet, which 
were very much contracted. He was considered by his owners 
to be of little value to them, and, I believe, was cast for sale at 
what he would make. With the exception of his feet, he ap- 
peared to be in all respects healthy, and his legs were as fine as 
a foal’s. 
On the 29th of July I operated on both fore legs : the result 
was most satisfactory ; getting up and trotting out free and 
sound. He stood at my stables for three or four days ; then 
got in condition ; put to his former work in less than a month 
from the date of the operation, where he has remained with little 
or no interval of rest ever since, performing capitally. 
Case IV. — Patient, a black mare, aged, property of P 
and L , coach proprietors ; had been at coach work ; after- 
wards worked on the farm ; lame in both fore feet ; it appeared 
as if from ring-bones, for which she had been treated with firing 
and blistering round the coronets. I operated on the 1st of 
August; the immediate result very satisfactory. She was soon 
put to work, drawing manure, &c. ; afterwards, to assist in 
working a heavy omnibus from Bideford to Barnstaple and 
back, eighteen miles a-day. She continued at this for some 
little time, and was again put on the farm, where I was re- 
quested to see her, in January last. I found her at work, but 
limping a good deal in the near fore leg. The fetlock-joint was 
swollen ; the pastern shewing some unusual degree of obliquity, 
as if the ligaments and tendons about the joint had partially 
given way. I have no doubt but this state of leg was brought 
about by the animal’s powers being overtaxed, when working 
the heavy omnibus before alluded to — a duty which, from her 
size and strength, she was never calculated to fill. 
CASE V. — Patient, a brown gelding, about six years old ; 
coach-horse, same owners as the subject of Case III : was 
brought down from Exeter for my opinion. I saw him the 
day after his arrival ; he was then in the stable lying down, 
and with great difficulty was induced to rise. When the poor 
brute was up, he could scarcely stand, he was so very lame in 
