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shod, and on the pave. In our opinion, these circumstances, by 
increasing the irritation and the pain, could not fail of aggra¬ 
vating the disease. 
Besides the reasons which we have just seated, and which are 
quite sufficient in our minds to prevent our sanctioning this pro¬ 
ceeding, another motive has prevented us from making any expe- 
raent to test its efficacy, and that is—our author uses, in the 
treatment of founder, not only compression, but all the other re¬ 
cognized means which we daily employ with success against this 
malady. If, by this combined treatment it should happen, as it 
is presumable that it would, that some animals are cured, it will 
then remain necessary to discover whether the success depended 
on the proceedings of M. de Nanzio, or, rather, whether it was not 
obtained in spite of his compression, and whether it was not the 
effect of other therapeutic agents. 
We are far from denying the good results which may be ob¬ 
tained in many cases from compression moderafely applied ; but 
we persist in our belief, as we have already stated, that it will, 
generally speaking, be more unfavourable than advantageous. 
On the whole, your committee has the honour to propose to you 
a vote of thanks to M. de Nanzio, for the Memoir which he has 
transmitted to you. 
Dupuy. Bouley, Reporter. 
Recueil, October 1837. 
ON FRACTURES OF THE EXTREMITIES IN THE 
HORSE. 
By Mr. Thomas Walton Mayeb, Newcastle-under-Line. 
The attention of the readers of The Veterinarian has 
been directed in your last two numbers to cases of fractures: and, 
although the facts have been ably stated by your correspondents, 
I trust the subject is of that interest to afford a sufficient apology 
for my offering a few further observations. 
The truth of Mr. Friend’s statement, of sudden fractures in 
the limbs under circumstances apparently not sufficient to pro¬ 
duce them, being, I think, fully established, I shall direct my 
observations to the following points :— 
1st. That fractures take place, and the bones do not imme¬ 
diately become displaced thereby. 
2dly. To support Mr. Friend’s assertion, that they are curable. 
3dly. To prove that simple fractures of the legs are curable in 
many instances where they are displaced. 
