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orbit, which had partially displaced the eye. The internal 
organs of the body were all healthy. 
History . — This mare had just been taken up from grass, in 
order to be put to work. She was in good condition, and 
had been turned out for several months in consequence of 
being affected with luxation of the head of the femur. The 
parts, however, were quite restored, and the lameness had 
ceased. When she was two years and a half old, she had a 
violent attack of influenza and pleurisy, but after her recovery 
she was put to work, at which she continued until she met 
with the accident before alluded to. The cause of the disease 
would therefore appear to be constitutional. She was not 
purely descended ; her dam was affected with ossific deposits, 
and had repeated attacks of ophthalmia, which terminated 
in total blindness of one eye and partial obscurity of the 
other. 
A CASE OF ABSCESS OF THE FETLOCK JOINT 
ASSOCIATED WITH (EDEMA. 
By the Same. 
January 22d, 1858. — 1 was requested to attend an aged 
bay waggon-horse, of the Flemish breed, which was described 
to have a “ humour in his thigh/’ 
On examination I found that the pastern joint was 
enormously swollen and very painful to the touch. The 
whole limb also was oedematous, and the vessels turgid with 
blood, so much so, that he could scarcely put his foot to the 
ground. 
He continued in this state until the 27th, when he fell 
dovrn, and being unable to rise, he w 7 as lifted up by pulleys 
and placed in slings. The limb was fomented, the thigh 
scarified, and continual poultices applied to the fetlock joint, 
and such medicinal agents exhibited internally as the nature 
of the case demanded. 
An abscess soon formed in the fetlock joint, and on 
examination this was found to be discharging synovia, 
mingled with pus. 
By the 2d of February, I could introduce my finger 
into the joint, when I found that the flexor tendons vrere 
quite bare near to the articulation and that sloughing had ex- 
tended as low r dow-n as the foot. He continued in dreadful 
pain until the 6th of February, when he got hung in the 
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