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and considered it nearly well ; he moved the mare about in 
her box, and she was free from lameness. To his utter asto- 
nishment, on the following morning, information was con- 
veyed to him to the effect that the leg of the mare was 
broken, just at the part the wound had been. This he could 
not understand at all. Soon after he arrived at my place, 
and gave me the information which I have thus feebly 
related, and asked my opinion upon the matter. I informed 
him that the fracture had taken place at the lirst, when the 
blow or kick was inflicted, but it was incomplete until the 
night of the tenth day, when the animal no doubt slipped, or 
laid down, and thus caused the completion of the fracture. 
As no hope of cure was entertained, I begged him to send the 
limb to me so that I might examine it. During the day it 
was brought, and upon examination I found that the edges 
of the broken bone, to the extent of four inches, were as smooth 
as if they had been polished with glass-paper ; and two inches, 
the ends of the fracture, were jagged, which confirmed the 
opinion given by me at the outset. 
This case goes to show how careful we ought to be in 
examining horses that have been kicked by others, as there 
is no saying what is the extent of the injury, without the 
most careful and minute scrutiny of the part. 
RUPTURE OE THE DIAPHRAGM. 
By J. Meyrick, M.R.C.Y.S., Welchpool. 
Not long since I was requested to see a cart-mare belong- 
ing to a gentleman living about three miles from this place. 
The mare had been turned out to grass the previous night, 
for the first time this year, and she appeared quite well up 
to the time I was sent for. I found her with all the usual 
symptoms of flatulent colic. The pulse was about 50 in the 
minute, and rather hard ; the respiration quickened, and 
there seemed to be considerable difficulty in effecting the 
expirations. 
I was not much surprised at this, as the mare was very 
tympanitic, and had been broken winded for years. 
I endeavoured to give an antispasmodic draught, but Hie 
wmuld not swallow it, although her head was held up for 
some time ; at length she threw herself about so violently 
that the attendants were obliged to let the head down, and 
the draught w T as of course lost. On examination of the 
