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to do so) to stand and bear his weight upon the limb, and to 
walk upon it. Indeed, on one occasion, when thrown down by 
the accident of slings giving way — into which he had been put at 
the urgent desire of his owner — he actually raised himself up 
upon his lame limb. Every thing failing to afford relief, and his 
local malady having by this time, in addition to the enormous 
tumefaction of limb it had caused, aroused alarming constitutional 
irritation, it was deemed imperative, for humanity’s sake, to put 
an end to the poor creature’s sufferings. On the 7th December 
— the forty- third from the day he received the injury — he 
was shot. 
Examination of his limb shewed a fracture of the external 
condyle of the humerus ; and splinters of bone, broken off its side, 
were found, in fragments, lodged in the soft parts surrounding the 
condyle. A sinus was discovered leading from the wound into the 
cavity of the joint, which the probe had failed to find out. There 
had been for some days before death a diminution in the quantity 
of the discharges, owing to their having, through gravitation, bur- 
rowed underneath the faschia, among the muscles of the arm. 
The synovial lining of the joint presented spotty blushes of red 
in patches, and along the middle of the groove, running between 
the condyles of the humerus, to the extent of an inch and a half, 
existed ulceration through the substance of the articular cartilage. 
What, however, constitutes a remarkable feature of this post- 
mortem account, and what is of more consequence to us in our 
present inquiry, is, that from the surface from which splinters of 
bone had been detached, a crop of soft granulations — of callus — 
was seen springing up, which, in a short time, would have become 
converted into bone ; and upon the bone in front, above the 
attachment of the capsular ligament, appeared a ridge of new 
formed matter, becoming osseous, running obliquely downward 
towards the inner condyle, from the superficies of which were 
sprouting similar granulations. 
The value of this case to us consists in the connexion of the 
appearances inside with those outside of the joint, and in the period 
of time these respective morbid changes were known for certain to 
have taken place : it being fairly assumable that all parts before 
the accident — the horse being but three years old — were in the 
most perfect health. That the joint could not have been opened 
by the wound is evident enough ; nor was any discharge of 
synovia apparent until after the elapse of a fortnight from the 
commencement of the case; so that the morbid alterations within 
the joint may be said to have occupied a month, or be of some 
such duration. Those, however, exterior to the cavity of the 
joint may have earlier date affixed to them : granulations, no doubt, 
