PROGRESS OF VETERINARY SCIENCE AND ART. 43 
mals, — thanks to accurate observers, who do not content 
themselves with the study of symptoms, but ably undertake 
post-mortem examinations. 
It is only since last July that we have undertaken to 
record the progress of Veterinary Science abroad for the 
benefit of our professional brethren in England, and in this 
short space we have had occasion to quote and comment 
upon most important observations respecting lamenesses, 
such as those by Villatte and Goubaux on shoulder lame- 
ness ; Turner and Mascher on sesamoid and navicular 
disease ; and now Hollmann on an affection of the muscles 
of the thigh, associated with dubious symptoms. I must not 
omit to allude to Mr. King’s case of obliteration of the 
arteries inducing lameness, and Mr. Varnell’s important 
report on the same, published in this Journal. 
If we advance like this we shall not have occasion to resort, 
as is done even up to the present day, to the shoulder or hip 
joints , or to rheumatism in the feet or elsewhere, as scapegoats 
to hide our ignorance. Rheumatism may occur, as well 
as shoulder or hip-joint disease, but generally associated with 
marked and well-defined symptoms; we are not to take them 
in the light of essentially obscure diseases. 
Respecting Mr. Hollmann’s case, although it occurred in 
a cow, it is such as we might expect in the horse. Some 
hind leg lamenesses are occult, and Hollmann, in his paper, 
says, that at one time he was inclined to regard the affection 
as one, described by Hertwig in the 13th volume of the 
Magazine, of rupture of the flexor metatarsi and peronaeus. 
I find in Hertwig’s paper a reference to Mr. Cartwright’s 
very interesting case of rupture of the flexor metatarsi in the 
Veterinarian for 1841. It may gratify Mr. Cartwright and 
every other contributor of the Veterinarian , to know that not 
a single fact recorded by them escapes the notice of their 
learned brethren in Germany, and it is in the German works 
that the British contributors figure the most. 
Connected with Mr. Hollmann’s case, I must refer the 
reader to a most instructive one published by my friend, 
Mr. Hunting, in the Vet . Record for 1850. It is not exactly 
of the same nature, but implicating the same muscle, and the 
symptoms accordingly varying. Mr. Hunting’s case, w r hich 
now acquires great interest, was one of paralysis of the 
rectus, with atrophy of it and of the crural nerve. 
There are some lamenesses of importance which occur, the 
notes of one of which I possess, but space forbids me trans- 
cribing them here, in which the trochanter minor externus 
of the femur, or of the tendon of the gluteus externus, or 
