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A SINGULAR CASE OF FRACTURE. 
By Mr. Fuller, of March. 
On the 4th inst. I was returning from Manea, a village a few 
miles distant from March, upon a very high-couraged pony, 
about thirteen hands and a half high, particularly light about his 
fore-quarters, and rather stale of his fore-legs. I had not pro¬ 
ceeded far when he suddenly started off at full speed (from what 
cause I am unable to say, unless the girths had got backwarder 
than usual) : he had not gone more than about half a mile be¬ 
fore I managed to get him into a steady gallop, at which time 
he fell with me as suddenly as if he had been shot. As soon as I 
recovered from the fall I examined him, expecting to find neither 
more nor less than two broken knees ; but to my great surprise 
I found him broken down of both fore-legs. Considering it to be 
a hopeless case, I had him destroyed; and upon examining the 
legs after death, I found the tendons of the perforatus and per- 
forans of the near fore-leg were completely ruptured, just as they 
pass over the sessamoid bone, which was fractured in a trans¬ 
verse direction, and the lower end of the metacarpal bone dislo¬ 
cated backwards and downwards. The sessamoid bone of the oft’ 
leg was fractured in the same direction as that of the near one, 
but the tendons were entire. The accident happened upon a 
good gravel road. 
June 18, 1830. 
ON THE EXHIBITION OF STIMULANTS IN 
INFLAMMATION. 
By Mr. Proctor, of Solihull. * 
Gentlemen, 
Report tells me, some practitioners disapprove of my giving 
stimulants in the case of inflammation of the lungs, which is 
inserted in the February Number of “The Veterinarian.” 
You yourselves have asked the question, whether the stimulat¬ 
ing system was not commenced too early, and pushed too far ? 
I answer, No. 
Mr. Kimbell, who is an eminent surgeon, was an eye-witness 
of all that occurred: he perfectly coincided with my plan of 
treatment. 
But should any of my professional brethren think well to 
attack me, or throw in their objections to that part of my treat- 
vol. in. 3 g 
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