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FRACTURE OF THE TWO FIRST RIBS. 
is any heat remaining in the feet. As soon, however, as he begins 
to step without evincing much tenderness, the best practice is at 
once to put broad-web shoes upon his feet, and cover the soles 
either with leather or gutta percha, interposing between that and 
the sole the common foot- stopping plastered upon tow, as will be 
more particularly described in the treatment of pumice feet. 
A CASE OF FRACTURE OF THE TWO FIRST RIBS. 
By E. N. Gabriel, M.R.C.S, and V.S., London. 
The subject of this case was a black Flemish cart gelding, 
sixteen hands high, the property of Mr. Thos. Green, junior, in 
whose possession he had been about twelve months. He was five 
years old, in excellent health, condition, and spirits ; and was in 
constant hard work, which he did freely and well. He afforded a 
fair specimen of the usual characteristics of the breed, being narrow 
chested ; not good but clean fore legs, flat feet, a large carcass, good 
loins, with powerful drooping quarters. He had never been amiss, 
or met with the slightest accident, while in the possession of his 
last owner. On the 30th of August last he was sent with a load 
of about thirty-eight hundred weight to Brentford. He had turned 
out of his road at an awkward corner to leave part of his load at 
Hammersmith, had returned, and was going on a perfectly level 
piece of road ; when he suddenly fell lame in the near fore leg, and 
so acute was the pain, that he raised the limb in advance, shrinking 
back in his breeching, as if to escape the agony. He was imme- 
diately taken out and left at a stable at Turnham-green. His 
driver proceeded with another horse to Brentford, and, on his re- 
turn late at night, bathed the shoulder, the apparent seat of the 
lameness, with warm water, and early in the morning returned and 
reported the accident to his master. He was seen during the day 
by his owner, and was led home in the evening ; a removal that 
must have been excessively painful, as he took four hours to come 
the distance. The case being considered one of severe sprain of 
the shoulder, and my friend being rather fond of amateur practice, 
he was placed in a loose box, a dose of physic given, and warm 
fomentations assiduously persisted in. Under this treatment the 
animal appeared to be doing well, the pain and lameness being 
lessened; when, while waiting for more hot water to continue the 
fomentation, on the 7th of September he suddenly fell, and died. 
The post-mortem examination afforded one of those extraordi- 
