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CONTRIBUTIONS TO VETERINARY PATHOLOGY. 
Treatment, August 23 d. — This morning the shoe is nailed on 
the foot and the apparatus fixed ; dossils of fine tow are placed on 
such situations between it and the leg as are likely to receive undue 
pressure ; a long bandage is wound round the leg, enclosing all, 
and kept moistened with a cooling lotion : he is tied up so as to 
prevent his lying down. At night I see him again ; no displace- 
ment has occurred ; my patient moves from side to side in his stall 
with comparative facility. The complete success of the experiment 
is an agreeable surprise to me. 
24 th. — Upon visiting him this morning I find him recumbent; 
he has contrived to unfasten himself ; the bones, however, appear 
to be in their proper situation. No unfavourable symptoms pre- 
sent ; he now rises with little apparent effort. I did not direct that 
he should be prevented from lying down again, as this did not 
occasion inconvenience. He throws a fair proportion of weight 
on this limb, and moves without disturbing the position of the 
joint. 
2 5th. — I find him this morning again down ; the attendant re- 
ports that he rises with little inconvenience, of the truth of which 
he gave me a proof by rising and moving without much pain or 
difficulty. The superiority of this method of treating dislocated 
fetlock -joints is now, in my mind, established. From this 
period to 
Sept. 24:th. — All goes on well, when the apparatus is removed 
and a bandage simply is applied : there does not appear to be 
much thickening of the joint; he walks and trots without shewing 
decided lameness. 
28 th . — To-day he is fired, and on the following day blistered. 
Deep perpendicular lines, about three quarters of an inch apart, 
are drawn with the iron over the joint; they are made deeper on 
the outside than on the inside of the joint. 
Oct. 21^. — An adhesive plaister of the usual kind is applied, 
and he is turned out for the winter. 
He does not come up for work till June 6th, when he is shod, 
and goes quite sound. There is scarcely any alteration in the size 
or appearance of the joint — save the blemish from firing — worth 
notice ; he resumes his usual employment, and continues working 
sound for years afterwards. 
Remarks. — Dislocations, either general or particular, have sel- 
dom been noticed in English veterinary works, our periodical 
literature, perhaps, excepted ; and, until the publication of Mr. 
Percivalfs admirable work entitled Hippopathology , we have had 
little or no information on this subject. 
It would seem, then, that other veterinary writers have either 
considered this class of injuries of so rare an occurrence, or so 
