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CASE OF SPRAIN OR LUXATION OF THE LUMBAR 
VERTEBRAE IN A MARE. 
By Mr. John Sherwood, F.6\, Sittingbourne, Kent. 
Having been a constant reader of your valuable publication 
for some years past, I now feel anxious to contribute my mite to 
the New Series. I will first give you a case that came under the 
management of my uncle, at Ospringe. A five-year-old brown 
mare was, on the 28th of July, 1841, taken from the paddock to 
the stable. My uncle was called from the stable by the coach- 
man, while attending another horse, in order to look at this mare. 
He found her leaning against the stall, and sometimes resting on 
her haunches — similar to a dog in a sitting posture. Pulse 80, 
and sweating profusely. With the aid of two or three men she 
was removed from the stable. He found, as he thought, a dis- 
location of the spine about the 3d or 4th lumbar vertebra, as her 
haunches hit both the posts when she came out of the stable. He 
then looked round the paddock, and found that the mare had 
rolled into a hollow place in it, and there was a considerable 
quantity of her coat or hair on the brink of the place. 
He bled her to the amount of eight pounds, gave a laxative 
ball, and ordered a liniment composed of the oils of turpentine 
and olives, with a portion of liq. ammonia 5jss, to be rubbed well 
over the loins twice a-day. Upon this he placed a fresh sheep’s 
skin, and directed that she should be kept close in the stall for 
the night. 
29 thy 10 a.m. — He again saw her, and found her more com- 
fortable. Pulse 60; medicine operating freely. The sheep- 
skin was removed on the 30th, and the liniment, with occasional 
laxatives, were continued until the 3d of August, during which time 
she improved much, but did not lie down for nearly three weeks. 
On the 8th, the loins were blistered. In the course of three 
weeks from the time of the accident she was ready again for 
work, and has continued at work, both for saddle and harness, 
ever since ; in fact, she has carried a sixteen-stone man without 
evincing the least symptom of weakness. 
