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well as before, and would not canter readily, though he had pre¬ 
viously been much used to this pace. Two days before he was 
destroyed, the groom was riding him at a slow pace, when he 
suddenly gave way behind, was carried home, and would not 
stand afterwards. Now this horse, I take it, must have either 
fractured the spine slightly when pulled up suddenly as afore¬ 
said, but without displacing the bones; or otherwise the muscles 
of the loins might have, been strained at that time so as to have 
rendered them incapable of performing their office properly, and 
thus, by the deprivation of their accustomed protection, the spine 
was in greater danger of injury and fracture. 
CASE OF FRACTURE OF THE ULNA. 
Hy the same. 
About a year and a half since, I was requested to attend a 
horse belonging to George King, Esq., of Redbridge, in order to 
decide whether it was worth while to keep the animal, or to have 
him destroyed. It was a spirited and favourite horse, and very 
excellent in harness. He had been kicked about three weeks 
previously by another horse just below the elbow of the near fore 
leg, and had since this period been attended by a professor of the 
veterinary art residing near the spot, whose treatment consisted 
in sundry applications of certain stimulating oils to the part af¬ 
fected, the horse being at the same time, and by his recom¬ 
mendation, turned out with other horses in a water meadow ; so 
that, when I saw him first, he was tormented with the flies, and 
jumping over the ditches with three legs, whilst the fourth was 
dangling in the air. 
On examining the part attentively I discovered a longitudinal 
fracture of the ulna to some extent; and I began to fear, from the 
long period that had been suffered to elapse, and the irritation 
thereby produced, and the allowing the triceps muscle to continue 
its action during this time, that the result would be unfavourable. 
However, I had the animal confined to a shed, placed a high- 
heeled shoe on the affected limb, inserted a seton near the part as 
a counter-irritant, and also to assist in keeping the limb quiet, 
and some days afterwards applied a charge round the part. The 
animal was kept about two months under treatment, during 
which time his amendment was plainly manifested : he was then 
turned out for several months, came up free from lameness, and 
thus worked sound up to the present day. 
When called in to a case of fracture, the veterinary surgeon has 
