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little below this branch is given off (JF), which pursues a course 
towards the toe on the inner side of the left os pedis, between it 
and the sensible laminae. It gives off branches to the sensible 
lamina, and sole f and then enters a foramen on the inner side of 
the coffin-bone, by which other arteries of the laminae and sole 
are supplied. Near the origin of this artery several branches 
are given off, which supply the heels, sensible laminae, and the 
posterior part of the sensible sole of the right coffin-bone. 
The small metacarpal artery is situated just below the knee, 
at the right side of the suspensory ligament. It gives off three 
branches in its course, and then passes down in the hollow be- 
tween the flexor tendons and the suspensory ligament; and, be- 
coming deeper seated about half way down the cannon-bone, 
separates into two trunks. One takes a direction to the fetlock 
joint, and there becomes the left plantar artery ; the other, a 
ramus anastomoticus, advances between the bifurcations of the 
suspensory ligament, crosses over to the other side anterior to 
the ligament, and between its left bifurcation joins the large 
metacarpal artery. The branches of the ramus anastomoticus are, 
(a) a recurrent artery. 
( b ) a branch supplying the fetlock joint. 
(c) which enters a foramen in the bone. 
The right plantar artery accompanies the vein and nerve, and 
after sending some branches to the anterior part of the pastern 
bone, and two smaller ones to other parts, then divides and sub- 
divides, to supply the coronary ligament. 
[To be continued.] 
LOCAL PALSY IN HORSES. ’ 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian .” 
I have read the report of Mr. Youatt’s Lectures on Palsy 
with much interest, but have looked in vain for some account 
of a kind of palsy in horses, affecting different parts in different 
cases, and of which I have met with several, though I remember 
reading of one only, and that probably was not much noticed. 
I purpose now to relate as many as my paper will contain, 
withholding for the present my opinion as to the nature and 
cause, with the hope that you or some of your readers will add 
to the number, and give a more satisfactory explanation than 
I am able ; for though I might be in some degree satisfied with 
my own, it would be difficult to demonstrate it to the satisfaction 
of others. 
An old pony mare that I had known for some years, full of 
