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cow not to be moved on any account until she moved by herself, 
and to be milked when she was found up, but never to force her 
up to be milked ; in fact, that she was to have her own way in 
every thing. The bandages and splints were continued on the 
fracture for nine weeks, at the expiration of which time they 
were taken off, and the cow turned out to pasture, perfectly sound : 
the bailiff remarked what a little trouble she had given. 
Case VIII. 1841. — Mr. Wm. Greaves, gardener to Mrs. 
Brownill, Newfield Green, near Sheffield, was firing off a gun, as 
he thought, in a perpendicular direction : the gun punched, and 
hurt his shoulder. In a little while the pain that he had felt sub- 
sided, and he experienced but little of it, except at one time when 
wheeling a loaded wheelbarrow, and at another while whetting a 
scythe with a stone. Three weeks after the occurrence, while 
ringing a pig, the clavicle divided, one end of the fracture almost 
coming through the skin. 
Mr. Editor, — Sir, The whole of the cases I have sent you 
only go to prove the truth of the old proverb, that “ a stitch in 
time saves nine and yet, in these cases, had that proverb been 
acted on, we might truly have said that ninety-nine would have 
been saved instead of nine. More cases of the kind could be 
added ; but I doubt lest that your pages have been already tres- 
passed upon too much on this subject, so shall -subscribe myself, 
Your’s respectfully. 
Sept. 14th, 1848. 
FRACTURE OF THE CARTILAGE OF THE FOOT. 
By T. W. Gowing, M.B.C.V.S Camden-town. 
On looking over my case book, I find there recorded some con- 
ditions of disease which do not appear to have been generally 
noticed ; and from these I am tempted to make a few extracts, in 
the hope that they may prove acceptable to the readers of The 
Veterinarian. 
In the month of April I was requested to see a bay horse, the 
property of Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, which had been injured 
by one of the railway trucks coming in contact with the foot. 
Excessive lameness was the result, and the usual stable remedies 
for such an accident had been employed, without, in the opinion of 
those who used them, producing much benefit ; for abscess after 
