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FRACTURE OF THE RIBS, &C. 
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May 26th, 1830, I was requested to attend a black mare, the 
property of Mr. H. Mills, of Greensbury Hill. I found her lying* 
down, apparently free from pain'; pulse 27; the urine gradually 
trickling away ; eating greedily any thing offered to her ; occa¬ 
sionally attempting to rise, but unable to command the posterior 
extremities, the application of any stimulus to which not causing 
the slightest excitement, but, when applied to the shoulders, she 
made violent efforts to raise herself. 
This combination of symptoms of c ourse caused a more minute 
examination, when, drawing the fingers carefully along the ridge 
of the back, I discovered a slight depression of the spinous pro¬ 
cesses of the eleventh and twelfth dorsal vertebrae, and, upon 
urging the mare to move, a crepitus was easily distinguished. 
Auer inquiring into the history of the case, I was informed that 
on the previous morning, when trying to catch her in the field, she 
leaped at the gate, but failing to clear it she fell upon her back 
on the opposite side, lay a short time, then got up and trotted 
to the stable: she was saddled, and Mr. Mills, who is a heavy 
weight, cantered her upwards of three miles, when she became 
unusually dull and sluggish, which occasioned him to leave her 
at Mr. Adams’s lime works, where she w as bled, and Mr. Mills, 
when returning at night, found her (as he considered) much 
better, and attempted to take her home; but w hen he had pro¬ 
ceeded about a mile on the road, she w r as scarcely able to move 
herself: she was then left at Mr. Strongitharm’s, oi Calder Field, 
w r here she lay down in the night, and was afterwards in the state 
I found her when called in, which I have previously described. 
She was destroyed in my presence, and, upon post-mortem ex¬ 
amination, I found the twelfth dorsal vertebra fractured through 
its body; the eleventh, tw elfth and thirteenth ribs on the near 
side w ere also fractured about two inches from their articulation 
with the vertebrae, the medulla spinalis divided, and a small 
piece of bone then sticking in its sheath. 
CORRECTION OF THE REPORT OF THE DIS¬ 
CUSSION ON RABIES. 
By Mr. Lang worthy. 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian 
Gentlemen, 
On reading, in your last number, the discussion which took 
place on rabies canine, at the Veterinary Medical Society, l 
