OBSCURE IIOCK LAMENESS. 
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so far as I could see, the wound in the vein was neatly close , 
but the vein was inflamed. In the right auricle of the heart, theie 
was pus of a cheesy consistency, and there was a slight effusion 
of serum in the chest. 
EXTRACTS FROM MY CASE-BOOK. 
By Mr. W. Simpson, V.S , Southampton. 
No. VIII. 
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Obscure Ilock Lameness. 
A m il 2d 1833.—The patient is a chestnut gelding, twelve 
vcars old belonging to Captain Griffiths, who has hunted him 
reo ularly through six seasons, during four of which he has been 
affectedwith a very perceptible, and at times 
the off hind leo - . For the remedial treatment of this lameness 
he was placed under the care of various learned and unlearne 
professors of the healing art, most of whom, I am given to 
understand spoke decidedly of the stifle as the injured part and 
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hesitated to destroy his trusty slave as recommended by his 
brother-sportsmen, and determined to leave no ^rtuat, ° 
brino- him again to the covert side in a state fit to o. From 
the history of the case given to me, it appears, that af ter a little 
exertion the lameness decreases, and at times a most or Quite 
disappears; but that after rest, and when fiist taken out o re 
stable, it is very evident. Upon examining the animal the fol- 
lowino- characteristic symptoms present themselves . the hoc 
cannot be flexed ; thus, in washing out the foot the groom does 
not bend up the leg towards the body, and so present the bottom 
of the foot backwards, but he is obliged to extend the leg for¬ 
wards under the abdomen. In turning round in the stall ti e 
lameness is more evident than at any other time, the on e » 
very much favoured, and the horse’s weight almost constantly 
borne by the other leg when standing in the stable : theie is no 
extra heat in any part of the extremity, neither can I make out 
the least external enlargement. Upon taking these various cir¬ 
cumstances into consideration, and knowing the strange obscu¬ 
rity of hock lameness, I was soon brought to the opinion that 
that joint harboured the evil; and I was the further contained m 
