622 DISEASE OF THE FETLOCK JOINT OF A HORSE. 
stances of the liver and spleen beneath a powerful microscope, 
their appearance presented nothing beyond extreme condensation. 
The kidneys healthy. The heart thinner in its walls, and much 
softened. The left lobe of the lungs presented an appearance of 
chronic pleurisy ; the right lobe was healthy. 
Believing the disease of ascites in the horse to be very rare, I 
forward the above case to the readers of your valuable periodical, 
having myself been in practice upwards of twenty-two years, and 
never before meeting with a case. 
DISEASE OF THE FETLOCK JOINT OF A HORSE. 
By James Broad, M.R.C.V.S., Assistant to Mr. J. Woodger, 
14, Market-street, Paddington. 
On the 11th of August last, a heavy aged cart-horse, belonging 
to Mr. Rutty, coal and timber merchant, Paddington Wharf, fell 
suddenly lame in the near fore leg, immediately after turning short 
round with a cart heavily laden. The same day, my attention 
was directed to him. As a necessary precaution, I had the shoe 
removed, and examined the foot, without detecting the least 
cause of lameness. But, in passing the hand down the posterior 
part of the limb, there was great pain evinced on pressing the 
flexor tendons and suspensory ligament about the vicinity of the 
sesamoids, and extending upwards. The character of the lame- 
ness was of that description usually called strain, or sprain, of the 
suspensory ligament : in fact, such was, according to my impres- 
sion, the nature of the disease ; though, hereafter, the case will 
prove to have been of a different description, notwithstanding it 
was attended by a similar chain of symptoms to that of strain of 
the suspensory ligament. 
Treatment. — Placed a light old shoe on the foot, removed the 
horse into a loose box, and ordered him to be prepared for physic, 
and repeated warm fomentations to be applied to the limb. 
1 6th. — Purging freely, but as lame as ever : he could scarcely, 
indeed, bear any weight upon the limb. 
1 5th. — Physic set. Not much improved. Bled him in the toe 
to the amount of eight quarts. Continue warm fomentations. 
16th. — Apply cooling lotion to the limb, and wet bandages with 
cold water. 
18^. — Slight improvement. Continue the same treatment. 
24 Ih. — Still very lame. Apply a blister from the coronet to 
within two inches of the knee joint. 
