744 CASE OF INTESTINAL INFLAMMATION IN A MARE. 
step the animal took the anterior part of the fetlock^joint came in 
contact with the ground, producing an ill-conditioned abraded sur¬ 
face. His heel had not touched the ground for upwards of two 
years, and the horse had been repeatedly blistered by the owner, 
to no purpose. This day the owner consulted me, and I recom¬ 
mended a division of the perforatus and perforans tendons, which 
was performed in the usual manner, midway between the hock and 
fetlock, on the same day. 
Upon rising after the operation, the heel came immediately down 
to the ground. The tuft of hair at the posterior part of the fetlock 
touching the ground, a patten shoe was applied to the foot for 
some time, and its height gradually diminished. 
The wound in the leg did not take on quite so healthy an action 
as I could have wished, much sloughing ensuing; ultimately, how¬ 
ever, it did well. A bandage was applied to the leg for six weeks 
after the operation, by which time the wound had completely 
cicatrized. 
April Y2th .—No difference in the gait can be detected. He 
walks and trots well. He took a moderate quantity of exercise 
daily, and, soon afterwards, was turned to a straw yard for two 
months. 
The horse is now in regular work. There is no appearance of 
the former complaint. It is not at all perceptible. 
The cause of failure of this operation in many instances, may, 
I think, be attributed to the owners of the animals being too eager 
to work them before a solid bond of union has taken place between 
the ends of the divided tendons. 
CASE OF INTESTINAL INFLAMMATION IN A MARE. 
By Mr. J. WOODGER, V.S., London. 
[The Editor has no alternative. He may introduce some alteration, 
or, as he supposes, improvement in the style of the communica¬ 
tion ; but he must express the sense and meaning of the different 
actors in the case which he narrates. He has done so here; and 
if the reader wonders with great amazement, the fault is not 
his.—Y.] 
On November the 4th, 1840, at seven o’clock in the morning, 
I was sent for to look at a brown mare. She had been at work the 
day before ; ate and drank as usual, and was apparently in good 
health. When she was fed this morning, she ate a little, but 
