512 INFLAMMATION OF THE FLEXOR TENDONS, &C. 
The chest presented all the lesions that characterize pleuro- 
pneumonitis. There was considerable effusion of serous fluid, in 
which masses of flocculent albumen were swimming, and there 
were numerous and large adhesions between the costal and pul¬ 
monary pleurae. The lungs, diminished in size, were, in a manner, 
atrophied ; numerous tubercles about the size of a millet seed 
were observed, and the left lung offered towards its centre a 
large white degenerated substance. The abdomen did not con¬ 
tain any thing remarkable. 
From the hocks to the fetlocks the cellular tissue was infil¬ 
trated by a fluid resembling olive-oil. The tendons of the per¬ 
forate, from the place where they form the sheath of the sessa- 
moidean portion, were completely ruptured—their fibres were of 
a somewhat yellow colour, and easily separated from each other, 
as if they had been macerated. The perforans tendon and the 
suspensory ligament of the fetlock were sound. The lesion was 
the same in both legs. 
The editor asks, in a note, why rupture of the tendon of one 
only, whether the perforatus or perforans, should render the 
horse unable to stand, while division of both of them does not 
render him incapable of ordinary work ? 
Journal de Med . Vet., 1832, p. 22. 
Inflammation of the Flexor Tendons and their 
Sheaths. 
By M. Leblanc. 
A mare, eight years old, and that had worked hard during 
the last four years, had a vesicular cutaneous eruption, which in 
a short space of time covered a great part of her skin. Proper 
treatment being adopted, it disappeared from her trunk, and, all 
at once, the vesicles covered the two hind limbs, and particu¬ 
larly the right one. I recommended certain applications, which 
were punctually but most unskilfully applied. The groom, in 
order to avoid the reproaches which he merited, fomented and 
cleaned the legs with bran and water, and, in order to do it more 
effectually, he used a hard brush. By this he excited an intense 
inflammation, not only of the skin, but of the subcutaneous 
tissue, and even those more deeply seated. 
Nothing could arrest the progress of the inflammation—the 
effects of which were, first, a multitude of boils, which ulce¬ 
rated deeply, and destroyed the skin of the pastern; second, the 
complete destruction of the sheath of the perforatus tendon; and, 
third, a rupture of the perforans. 
The perforans and its sheath offered the following lesions in 
he parts that were not destroyed: on the limits of the solution of 
