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horse should be placed in slings, the cold lotion assidiously ap- 
plied to the quarter, and the state of the bowels attended to. 
This was persisted in for some days, during which our patient 
stood as much on the lame leg as the other : his appetite returned, 
his pulse became quiet, his carcass began to drop, and the first 
stage of suffering subsided favourably. 
During the ensuing week the slings were removed occasionally, 
and the patient gently moved ; and pressure on the hip-joint now 
distinctly produced a cup-and-ball sound, as if the head of the 
femur was moveable in and out of the acetabulum. This sound, 
and the total absence of crepitus, led me to the opinion that a 
rupture of the ligamentum teres had taken place. Now it will 
be perceived why I was so anxious to have an Hipposerus to rely 
on ; for here is an animal so lame in the near hind-leg, that he 
can scarcely make a walk of it — when he raises the leg, does not 
know whether he will put it down again within a third of a yard 
to or from him ; and yet three professional men, after careful exa- 
minations, agree to differ to the extent — of a fracture of the head of 
the femur — a rupture of the ligamentum teres — and no lesion at 
all, but a relaxation of the hip-joint and the round ligament. 
On commencing this paper, I fully expected to have been enabled 
to have given the post-mortem account of the case ; but so anxious 
is the owner that every chance should be given, that the horse is 
still kept on ; his general health as good as ever, free from pain 
when at rest, reposing in his slings at night, and moving about 
his loose box by day. A blister over the hip-joint has not pro- 
duced any change, and we must be content to wait till some very 
decided change takes place or the patience of the owner is ex- 
hausted, to penetrate the obscurity which has hitherto enveloped 
this case of lameness. 
THE VETERINARIAN, JANUARY 1, 1847. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
The beginning of a new year naturally turns our thoughts back 
on that which is past, as well as forward on that which is to 
come. If any thing can compensate for the loss of the year gone 
by, it is having made the best use we could of its days and hours 
while they were present this likewise constitutes as good an 
