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put on two or three hours before the horse was wanted, and they 
very materially lessened the lameness : it disappeared before the 
horse got out of the stable. The proprietor continued after¬ 
wards to use the bandage on this horse, and with the same 
beneficial result. 
CASE III. 
In October 1823, I attended a Wurtemburgh mare, six 
years old, that had cramp in her left hind leg. It was 
only perceivable when she first went out of the stable, and 
it disappeared when she had gone thirty or forty paces. When 
standing in the stable, she appeared to bear equally on all her 
legs; but when she began to move, she dragged the lame leg after 
her, and hopped three or four paces, during which a decided 
stiffness in the motion of the hock could be observed ; then the 
symptoms all disappeared, in order to return after one or two hours 
rest. No exterior lesion could be discovered, but each examination 
more and more convinced us that the hock was the seat of 
lameness. 
We applied the camphorated opiate friction—then the soap 
liniment—after that camphorated spirit—then tincture of can- 
tharides—and, finally, we blistered the hock, but without the 
slightest benefit. 
CASE IV. 
August 6th, 1825, I saw a little Hungarian mare with 
cramp in the left hind leg. As she went out of the stable she 
dragged that limb behind her, and there was evident stiffness 
extending from the thigh to the fetlock : she dragged the whole 
of the fore part of the hoof on the ground. After she had hopped 
along some paces, she, too, began to rest, first on the point of 
the toe ; then she placed her whole foot on the ground : afterwards 
the 1 ameness gradually lessened, but a stiffness remained, which 
by degrees disappeared, and when she had gone forty or fifty 
paces she was quite sound. 
We used the opiate, and the stimulating embrocations,without 
effect, and at length dismissed her as incurable. 
In September 1828, I visited her again: she was decidedly 
and permanently lame, and there was an osseous tumour on the 
inside of the hock, known by the name of curb. ( Courbe —Qy. 
Eparvin, see Spavin, Edit.) On her coming out of the stable, 
the leg was stiff; but she did not drag it, nor rest upon the toe, 
as at my first visit. After exercise of an hour or more, the lame¬ 
ness remained, but a little changed in its character: the side of 
the croup, answering to the lame leg, gave way and sunk at 
