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covery: she had not lain down since the accident, and could not 
raise her head to the manger, but was able to walk rather 
straighter. 
On the eighth day she appeared better, and was turned into an 
adjoining field: she managed to eat grass pretty well, and from 
this time she gradually got better. 
In about five or six weeks she could walk straight, and the neck 
had greatly recovered its natural shape. In the course of a 
month from this time she was put to work, where she still con¬ 
tinues. When I saw her last, the neck was very nearly restored 
to its former shape. 
A CASE OF FRACTURE OF ONE OF THE 
SESSAMOIDS. 
By Mr. John Harris, Jun F.*S\, Preston . 
On the 6th June, 1831, I was called in to a brown horse, 
belonging to Mr. Turner, coal merchant, of this town. The 
horse was a strong coach-like animal, and had been used to the 
cart for some time. He was intended to have run a match at a 
petty race with another horse of the same description. A few 
days previously, the parties thought they would give him some 
preparation, as far as a gallop or two, along with a half-bred 
mare that was going to run at the same place : he had not gone 
above a hundred yards before he came down headlong; and on 
getting up the lad saw that he was very lame: it was with great 
difficulty he could be led home, a distance of about two miles. 
On examination, I found considerable tumefaction of the off 
fore leg, great pain on attempting to walk, and he went nearly 
on his fetlock. Upon handling the parts a crepitus was very 
distinct; but whether arising from effusion or fracture I could not 
exactly decide, for to the feeling it was posterior to the metacarpal, 
and head of the large pastern. I had no thought of the sessa- 
moids. I considered the case as hopeless; but the gentleman 
washed me to attempt some relief. I bled him from the arm, 
put on a staple shoe, ordered cold lotions and bandages to the 
leg, and that a physic ball should be administered. 
The next day, Monday, I had him bled from the foot, and the 
lotions and bandages repeated : the swelling was immense. 
1 Tuesday .—Still worse. The weight being thrown upon the 
fetlock, caused some splinters of bone to work their way through 
the skin; and, perfectly convinced that it was of no use, I 
obtained the consent of the parties to have him destroyed. 
