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FRACTURED LIMBS OF HORSES. 
Oliver how long the mare had been lame, when he informed me 
eight weeks; but not being much lame during the first two 
weeks, she had done nearly her usual work. He said, she had 
in that time been with a cart to Doncaster, and brought by her- 
self sixteen loads of wheat a distance of about twenty-two miles ; 
after which she became lamer, and was in consequence taken 
off her work. Meanwhile, she was travelled about four miles, 
every day or two, to the blacksmith, to have the leg dressed 
(which had gradually got worse up to the time I saw her); and 
afterwards he was advised to turn her out in the grass field, 
where she got down, and could not move the limb any more 
after, but completely carried it when made to move. I inquired 
of Mr. Oliver what had been the first cause of the disease ; when 
he informed me that a strange horse was put in the stable into 
the mare’s stall, and she was then allowed to go to the stable by 
herself, the door being open ; when, of course, she went to her own 
stall, and the strange horse kicked out, and struck her on the 
inside of the arm bone, rather towards the front, about three inches 
from the inferior extremity. I informed Mr. Oliver that the mare’s 
arm had been fractured from the time she was kicked by the 
strange horse, eight weeks ago, but that the fractured bone had 
not divided until now ; and from the great amount of suppuration 
going on in the part, I considered he had better have her at once 
destroyed. To this he would not consent, she being a favourite 
and a valuable mare. He then called in Mr. R. T., veterinary 
surgeon, and I heard no more of the case until about a week after- 
wards, when, passing by, Mr. Oliver desired me to go and destroy 
the mare ; for, said he, “ she is killing herself with tumbling 
about with pain.” Accordingly I went, and found her in the 
agonies of death, which I speedily put an end to. After I had 
killed her, I proceeded to examine the injured limb; and on dis- 
secting out the arm bone, through a great amount of swelling and 
suppuration, I found it was fractured a few inches from the supe- 
rior extremity. On the bone being carefully cleaned, the injury 
it had received appeared as the mark of a blow upon the inner 
side, rather inclining to the front, about three inches from the 
inferior extremity, which had fractured it to the length of about 
seven inches in a perpendicular line. There was also an oblique 
fracture upwards, about one inch long, running from the place 
where the blow had been given first ; and another within an inch 
of the lower extremity of the bone, which ran in a downward di- 
rection, about six-eighths of an inch in length. At the upper end 
of the perpendicular fracture an oblique one went from the inner 
side of the radius, taking both sides of the bone to about an inch 
and a half from the outer superior extremity ; the whole length 
