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We accordingly proceeded, in company with’ the owner, and 
another officer of the regiment, to examine the horse. The in¬ 
stant I saw the case, without the slightest hesitation, I pro¬ 
nounced it to be a dislocation of the patella outwards, pointing 
out to them a slight swelling observable on the outside of the 
stifle-joint; to all of which little or no attention was paid, they 
still imputing it to cold; and the circumstance of my having 
made two unsuccessful attempts to reduce it, tended to 
strength them in the opinion they had formed. 
I however felt so confident in my own mind, as to the nature 
of the case, that I made a third attempt, when after a great deal 
of trouble, and using no small degree of force, I succeeded in 
replacing the bone ; on which, to the astonishment of all pre¬ 
sent, the animal walked as well as he had ever done in his life, 
although they had not been able to move him from the place 
in which he was picketted for upwards of a week. 
Here the scene closed by the owner’s returning me his sincere 
thanks for the service I had rendered him, having looked upon 
it as a hopeless case. 
N.B. The difficulty I experienced in reducing the disloca¬ 
tion in this instance, which was so much greater than in any 
of the preceding cases, there can be no doubt arose from the 
bone having been so long displaced. 
WORM IN THE EYE. 
Case I. 
Novembet' 23, 1823. A brown horse, belonging to Captain 
M-’s troop, was reported to me by the Farrier-Major, (on 
my joining the 11th Dragoons,) for having an inflamed eye, he 
stating he believed that the animal had received some injury, 
as the eye had been bad for the last ten days or a fortnight. I 
found the eye-lids nearly closed, the conjunctiva highly inflam¬ 
ed, accompanied with a nebulous effusion obscuring the cornea 
lucida, the vessels of which were red and tinged with blood. 
On opening the eye-lids with my finger and thumb, I perceived 
a small white worm floating about within the aqueous humour, 
sometimes at the superior, at other times the inferior, part of 
the eye. I ordered him to be fed with bran mashes, with a 
view of operating on him the following morning. In punctur¬ 
ing the cornea with a small lancet, at the posterior and inferior 
