SHOULDER LAMENESS. 
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ever, gradually subsides, and ultimately there is a perceptible want 
or loss of substance on the outside of the scapula and shoulder joint. 
The lameness does not seem of a very painful character, and the 
peculiarity of the affection consists in the slipping or rolling out of 
the shoulder joint when weight comes directly upon it during the 
motion of the animal, which is due to the want of support afforded 
to this part of the limb when its investing and connecting muscles 
are not in their normal condition. 
Sprain of the flexor bracliii, articular disease of the joint, and 
“ shoulder slip,” are three affections of the shoulder which most 
persons in practice must have seen and have had occasion to treat. 
I have long ago heard them described with reference to their dif- 
ference of nature and seat, and have seen them illustrated not 
only in the living subject, but by numerous preparations of morbid 
anatomy. As these lamenesses, when occurring in their ordinary 
forms, are not equally dangerous as affecting the future value and 
usefulness of the animal, it becomes important to acquaint ourselves 
as fully as possible with their individual peculiarities of symptom, 
nature, cause, and treatment. Your articles on lameness, Mr. Editor, 
have for their object the furtherance of this desirable end ; and I 
trust you will yet favour us with some remarks on a part of the 
subject, which, along with many other readers of The VETERI- 
NARIAN, I conceive has not received justice at your hands. 
I am, Sir, your’s obediently, 
John Barlow, V.S. 
August 14th, 1848. 
*** A reference to the article on “ Shoulder Lameness,” in out- 
number for July last, will shew that Mr. Barlow, in his cacoethes 
culpaudi, has, to suit his own purpose, quoted a part instead of the 
entire of a sentence, and thereby completely distorted the meaning 
thereof. The sentence in question, in the original, stands thus : — 
“ Solleysell was perfectly well acquainted with the latter (the 
peculiar ‘ movement in the fore leg’) : his description includes 
pretty well all observation since his time has taught us concern- 
ing it” (viz. the “ movement in the fore leg,” and not, as Mr. Bar- 
low construes it, the subject of shoulder lameness). The disease 
in the shoulder joint, said by Mr. Barlow to be omitted in our 
paper, is there described through a quotation from Leblanc. And 
with regard to “ shoulder slip,” the phrase is too little used in the 
south to need any mention. The disease which he, without proof, 
asserts to consist in “ rupture of the muscular and tendinous 
fibres,” is described in the paragraph treating of shoulder lame- 
ness occurring from certain practices peculiar to riding-schools. — 
Ed. Vet. 
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