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distance of twenty-two miles, and by herself had brought “ sixteen 
loads of wheat !" The fractured humerus, though less favourably 
situate for the purpose, will sometimes hold together after the same 
manner. Mr. Nelson, as related in this month’s VETERINARIAN, 
was called to look at a “ lame” horse. Examination of the near 
fore limb elicited “a fracture of the humerus.” The horse had 
been kicked a month before, and yet had worked “ almost ever 
since and had that very morning been to Sheffield, a distance of 
five miles, for manure, without going “ lame when, on being 
turned afterwards into the homestead, he suddenly fell, the fracture 
having given way. 
Many like cases are, no doubt, to be found reposing in the 
records or memories of veterinary practitioners, and some, perhaps, 
there are among them of a yet more extraordinary and surprising 
character than any we have hitherto read of : lest in the latter by 
time — that edax rerum omnium — they should become effaced, or 
in the former, through some mishap, become “lost” or “mislaid,” 
we would counsel the possessors of such rarce axes to deposit 
them without delay in the iron safe of The VETERINARIAN. The 
point suggested to us in practice by the unparted fracture, the sta- 
bility or tenacity with which the cracked or broken bone holds 
together, is sufficiently established to put us in all such cases on 
our guard. It is a point which veterinary authors have, some how 
or other, overlooked, and one which young practitioners are ex- 
ceeding apt to take insufficient heed of. On these accounts, we 
have deemed it of too much importance to pass it over without 
once again directing professional notice to it. 
Mr. Gowing’s case of “ Fracture of the Cartilage of the Foot” 
is a novelty in veterinary surgery. We have on record examples 
of fracture of the pastern and coronet bones, of the coffin and na- 
vicular, but we lacked one of the ossified cartilage : since ossified it 
must become before it can be fractured. And in the ossific con- 
dition, consisting as it does of bone extremely porous and ex- 
tremely fragile, it is more likely to fracture on the application of 
violence than any other part about the foot or leg. Liable to 
hurts of the nature of the one described by Mr. Gowing, arising 
too often out of the heedlessness of those who have to do with 
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