FRACTURED LIMBS OF HORSES. 
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of the fracture being about twelve inches, leaving the ulnar bone 
sound ; and this, from the rough surface and fresh appearance of 
fracture, had evidently only occurred the day I first saw her, from 
falling in the field after the ulna had given way. The whole of 
the radius was cased over, to the thickness of from a quarter to 
half an inch, with additional bony matter, with the exception of 
the fractured parts, and thereabouts was a space of some six- 
eighths of an inch, where the fractures could be distinctly seen in 
the bone, denoting the length of time it must have been on the 
work. 
Case II. June % 1837. — Mrs. Barstow, Crab-tree Bank, near 
Sheffield, sent her servant-man to my house for a bottle of lini- 
ment for a horse which had, the night previous, been kicked on the 
inner side of the near hind leg, about six inches above the hock, 
in the situation where the tibia is the least covered with muscle. 
I told the servant he had better rest the horse ; when he informed 
me he was not lame. I did not see or hear any more of the horse 
until about eleven o’clock in the morning of the 7th, when I 
met the servant and Mrs. Barstow’s son with the horse in question, 
and two others, on the Little Sheffield -bridge, with a cart load of 
wood. The servant stopped the team, and beckoned me to come and 
look at the horse’s leg which he fetched the oils for : I accordingly 
went, and examined the leg. There was a small wound, as before 
stated, about six or eight inches above the hock, and on the least 
covered part of the tibia. I at once pronounced the horse in great 
danger to be worked, and that they must be exceeding^ careful not 
to twist him about, or he might break his thigh. “ Oh !” said the 
servant and the son, “ he is not lame in the least ; he does not 
even favour the limb.” “ Well !” repeated I, “ you must be 
very careful, for all that, with him.” The horse was in the shafts, 
and the servant was about to take him out with the other two into 
the dike to water, when I left them. My house is about three 
hundred yards from the bridge. By the time I got home, a mes- 
senger arrived to say that I must go down to the horse dike im- 
mediately, there being a horse there which had fallen into the 
water. Accordingly, I hastened down to the place, when, on in- 
quiry, the servant told me that he hooked the chains of the pin 
horse into the hames of the shaft horse, and rode on the first one 
into the water ; when, in the act of turning after the horses had 
drunk, the shaft horse fell down in the water, and that now he is 
so lame that he cannot use the leg in the least. On examining the 
limb, I soon discovered that the tibia had come apart at the place 
where the blow was given six days ago. I informed the son that 
the thigh was fractured at the time the horse was kicked, and that 
now it had divided, as, I told him before, I was afraid it would do. 
