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treatment, seeing that recovery was rather to be attributed to 
time than to any therapeutic measures. 
This I do not deny. I know very well that “time” is the 
principal consideration where the reparation of ruptured tendon 
is the object ; at the same time it appears to me that the ap- 
plication of a pitch plaster upon the fore part of the limb is 
attended with the double advantage of hastening the resolution 
of any effused matters, and placing the shafts of the bones in a 
certain degree of immobility. It has also the advantage of 
amounting to some treatment being employed, instead of the 
practitioner standing by, doing nothing. 
The accident above described has been adverted to for some 
years by some English veterinary writers. Mr. Cartwright has 
given cases of it in The VETERINARIAN ; but, then, with us 
it has usually passed under the name of “ sprain and it admits 
of question whether it in reality be a sprain or a “rupture” of 
the tendon. For our part, we incline to the side of “ sprain,” 
and for two reasons : one being, that manipulation furnishes us 
with no distinct or perceptible mark of rupture ; the other, that 
recovery to us appears of too short duration, and too complete 
in that short time, to render it likely to have been an actual 
break of tendon. 
The next paper we come to is one by M. Orger, con- 
sisting of 
Synoptical Descriptions , with a Classification, of the Coats of 
Horses, and their Peculiarities. 
The “ descriptions” composing this article are in two parts : 
the first comprising the classification of the coats of horses ; 
the second, their peculiarities. 
In the first division the coats are arranged as follows : — 
M. Orger divides them into simple and compound colours. 
The Simple Colours form but one kind, comprising four 
varieties; viz. I, white; 2, black; 3, bay ; 4, cream-colour. 
The Compound Colours are of four kinds : — 
1st KIND. Colours of an uniform shade, with head and tail 
and extremities black or mule-coloured. The varieties are, 
1, bay ; 2, brown : 3, mouse-coloured. 
2d KIND. Colours formed of two shades. The varieties are, 
1, the grey; 2, the flea-bitten grey; 3, the chestnut ; and 4, 
the dun. 
