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SEXTUPLE FRACTURE OF THE OSSA 
INNOMINATA OF A HORSE. 
By R. H. W. Holloway, M.R.C.V.S., V.S., 2d Light 
Dragoons, Madras. 
Gentlemen, — I send you, by this mail, a photographic 
illustration on glass, taken by Lieutenant Hodgson, of the 
2d Light Cavalry, of the following case of fractures of the 
pelvis. 
The subject was a remount horse of the present year, 
selected at the Depot Oossoor, as a charger for the officer 
commanding this regiment. 
The following is the substance of what I was enabled to 
collect from the salistry (native practitioner) in charge of the 
remount horses. They left the stud on the 20th December 
last. During the halt at Caera, a place distant from Oossoor 
ninety miles and five furlongs, the horse in question, young, 
fresh, and in high condition, became suddenly excited and 
turbulent at his picket, the result of which was a violent fall 
upon -his near haunch, upon the peg to which he was attached. 
It soon became manifest, the horse being unable to rise, that 
a severe shock had been imparted by the concussion. Fomen- 
tations were, as soon as possible, actively employed, and per- 
sisted in. 
On the following morning, with some assistance, the horse 
got up. Very considerable effusion and tumefaction of the 
injured parts had supervened, but although the lameness was 
severe, he was enabled to resume the march. 
The next day there was such an augmentation and aggra- 
vation of the abnormal symptoms, that the poor animal was 
not able to move at the appointed time ; he was, therefore, 
left behind, with instructions for his general management. 
At the next stage there was a halt of one clear day, upon 
the morning of which he came up to the encampment, having 
been enabled, after simple fomentation, to march slowly on. 
Here a charge was applied, subsequently to which the tume- 
faction gradually subsided, the suffering became less acute, 
and the lameness somewhat less apparent. After the charge 
was spread, the horse regularly performed his daily marches, 
of from ten to fifteen miles, with the other remounts, only 
halting when they did, although occasionally he arrived 
rather later. 
Beyond the fomentations and charge, with the exception 
