ON THE DISEASES OF THE HORSES IN CANADA. 431 
Fracture of the Metacarpal Bone. 
When travelling in the Eastern Townships, I met with an entire 
horse, named Tiger, which, from the circumstance of his having 
recovered from a broken leg, was called by the owner Broken- 
legged Tiger. He informed me that the leg was broken when 
two years old, and being a great favourite with his children, and 
a good constitutioned colt, he bandaged it up, and had a strong 
leather case made for the fractured part, sufficiently long to pre- 
vent his bending the knee, which he kept on until he was, well 
or able to walk. 
The fracture was just below the knee, and at the back part of 
the leg there was a considerable deposit of ossific matter, forming 
a soil of case to the flexor tendons, and, from the total absence of 
lameness and freedom with which he used his leg, their action 
could not be interfered with ; of course, there was a good deal of 
distortion about the parts. 
Description of three Hermaphrodites. 
In passing through Bradford, in Upper Canada, last summer, my 
attention was called by the driver of our conveyance to a grey 
horse (in the stable at a tavern where we stopped to bait our 
horses), stating he was “ half a horse and half a mare.” On pro- 
ceeding to the stable, I met the proprietor (a medico) who informed 
me he had recently purchased him as a curiosity. The penis was 
situated about ten or eleven inches below the anus, and in the state 
of erection projected seven or eight inches from the point of the 
hocks. There was a small udder in the usual place, with two 
diminutive paps or nipples, and when I saw him, no appearance 
of testes ; but upon meeting the owner in Toronto, about a month 
after, he informed me that one testis had descended into the udder, 
and could be distinctly felt. The horse was six years old. 
In going from Toronto to Oshama, in the month of August, I saw 
in a field close to Duffan’s Creek, in the township of Pickering, 
two bay horses, one of which, it struck me, was of this description ; 
and my companion and self, on proceeding to the spot where the 
horses were grazing, found, to our surprise, they were both her- 
maphrodites, being in every respect similar to the one above de- 
scribed. One was four and the other fifteen years old. 
