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Thinking this to be an extreme case of the kind, I proposed to 
the owner the following treatment ; namely, to divide the wall 
of the foot, commencing the incision about an inch from the 
point of each heel, carrying it down the wall, dividing the insen- 
sible sole in the same direction, terminating at the point of the 
frog, and leaving the frog and bars untouched. A light tip was 
put on, with a few nails at the toe, so constructed as to allow the 
frog to touch the ground. 
She was again blistered round the coronet, and, in a few days, 
turned out. In the course of two months from this time she was 
not only, comparatively speaking, sound, but the bad foot was 
even wider than the other. 
I have employed this treatment successfully in cases where the 
foot has been run over and contraction commenced. 
A CASE OF FRACTURE OF THE POSTERIOR 
MAXILLA OF A HORSE. 
By Mr. George Cleland, Rosewell, N. B. 
On November 6, 1836, I was called upon to attend a brown 
horse thirty years old. He was very subject to staggers, and 
had been blind nearly ten years, occasioned by over-exertion 
when young. He was considered to be a first-rate trotter. 
In one of his occasional fits of staggers he had tumbled and 
fallen back on account of the collar giving way, and also the bars 
which had been placed behind him for safety. None of the ser- 
vants being at home, he was found, when they arrived, lying be- 
hind one of the other horses. 
I was immediately sent for. I found his lower jaw-bone 
broken behind the place where the pulse is felt, and with a large 
wound below' his right eye, on the upper part of the spine of the 
cheek. 
I abstracted a piece of bone from the lower jaw about the size 
of a half-crown. I then found the fracture to be about nine 
inches in length, reaching from behind the place of the pulse to 
the nippers, and I abstracted several other small pieces of bones. 
His head was swelled to an enormous size, and his pulse 56. 
I abstracted a considerable quantity of blood — gave him laxa- 
tive and fever medicine, and enemata of sulphate of magnesia 
occasionally. I also applied warm fomentations to his head, and 
dressed his wound with tincture of benzoin. 
