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DISEASES OF HORSES IN INDIA. 
I am inclined to think that in the majority of cases, disloca¬ 
tion happens either from the horse being hurt in the stall, or in 
the act of lying down, or in making a violent effort to rise when 
down. 
This method of confining horses in their stalls, not only sub¬ 
jects them to greater liability to be injured; but they all of them 
experience from it more or less difficulty in lying down, and 
more still in rising when down ; for the ropes not only fetter 
the legs, but are every now and then themselves becoming en¬ 
tangled with one another. As might be anticipated, what proves 
an aggravation to this evil, is their not being allowed sufficient 
length of rope to admit of much alteration of posture ; which is 
owing to great numbers being so vicious that unless the man 
who looks after such an animal took the precaution to secure 
the hind legs, it would be highly dangerous for any stranger to 
approach him, and be even attended with risk to the man him¬ 
self while in the act of cleaning him. 
So that the animal is kept standing with his legs fettered and 
extended for many hours, and frequently for days and even 
weeks together, unless the eye of the master chance to be di¬ 
rected that way: this proves a cause (I cannot help thinking) 
of the disease termed Kumree or Kummeree; which is an af¬ 
fection of the loins, and a malady horses in India are very sub¬ 
ject to.* 
DISLOCATION OF THE PATELLA. 
' Case I. 
Meerat, Sept. 23, 1824. A dun horse, five years old, the pro¬ 
perty of Lieutenant-, of the 11th Dragoons, was found by 
the groom on entering the stable on the morning of the 23rd of 
Sept. 1824, so lame that he was incapable of moving from one 
side of the stall to the other. On the owner calling upon me, 
to visit the horse, he observed he thought his leg was broken; 
in fact said, that he would never more be worth sixpence.^’ 
I according visited the animal, and found him standing with 
the off hind leg projected backwards, the foot and pastern flexed 
to their utmost, with perfect inability of extension forwards, a 
slight swelling on the outside of the stifle-joint, accompanied 
* Kumree is commonly spoken of as a Stroke of the Wind, from the suppo¬ 
sition that it arises from the horse being exposed to the wind or a current of 
air. 
