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rested on the whole plantar surface, while before the toe only 
touched the ground. • 
Fifty-sixth day .—In spite of the extreme flexion of the limb, 
the animal walked much better; the tread on the sole was firmer; 
and the weather being fine, and the roads good, I ordered my 
groom to take him home to his master, which was a distance of 
about three miles, and which he walked in less than an hour 
without much fatigue. On his arrival they fed him and gave 
him water, and he soon afterwards laid down. 
Four days afterwards I applied the same number of needles to 
the same places as on the fifty-third day, and let them stay in 
four-and-twenty hours. 
I did not see my patient again until the sixty-fourth day; I 
then found him much better; the lameness was considerably di¬ 
minished, and all announced an approaching cure : notwithstand¬ 
ing this, l inserted twenty more needles to the depth of twenty 
lines, and suffered them to remain twenty hours. I desired that 
he might gradually return to his ordinary food, and that a clyster 
should be administered occasionally, and that he should be ex¬ 
ercised several times a-dav. 
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Seventy-ninth day .—The lameness was very slight. There 
was hardly any perceptible emaciation of the muscles; the af¬ 
fected limb was, in a manner speaking, of the same size as the 
other, and it no longer appeared to be shortened. In spite of 
this evident improvement, I once more resorted to acupuncturation, 
inserting fifty needles from eighteen to twenty lines in depth, and 
I left them in four-and-twenty hours. 
From this time the animal continued to get better, he regained 
his good condition and spirits; and by degrees took to his usual 
work, which he now performs as well as he did before the 
accident. 
CASE II. 
An entire draught horse, of extraordinary fatness, about eight 
years old, and about fifteen hands high, belonging to M. Leprince, 
jun., carrier in our town, was confined in the stable for eight or 
ten days by an inflammatory tumour, which had appeared on one 
shoulder, and which prevented his working. 
November 23 d, 182G.—He was taken out for walking ex¬ 
ercise, as they had been in the habit of doing for the last two or 
three days. The horse appeared very lively, neighing and trying 
to rear when he saw other horses near him ; but at a very short 
distance from the town the man who was with him was astonished 
to see him suddenly drop behind. It was not until after several 
cuts with the whip that he got up, and then it was only to fall 
