AND ITS BRANCHES. 
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he exhibited all the characters exteriorly of health, save that he 
was lame enough in the near fore leg, which his master attributed 
to the fatigue of his journey thither. Fie said, however, in half 
an hour all would be well again. 
While standing at rest, the knee and fetlock joints of the 
lame limb are much flexed, the foot reposing upon its toe upon 
the ground, the hoof being, in a manner, reversed, though at 
times he stretches out the limb in front of him, or rests the foot 
upon its heel; or he leaves it dragging behind him in an extreme 
state of flexion: all indicating a continued degree of pain. 
In this condition, if walked out, he refused to bear any weight 
upon the limb whatever, not even touching the ground with it. 
The shoe being taken off, the foot was found dry, inclined to 
flatness, sonorous under percussion, insensible to all pressure. 
Careful examination of the limb discovered nothing amiss. As 
the owner had predicated, the lameness disappeared in less than 
half an hour, and the paces of walk and trot were now per¬ 
formed with perfect freedom. 
M. Bouley, after an hour and-a-half had elapsed, ordered that 
the animal be put into harness afresh, and trotted for the space 
of a quarter of an hour. At departing, no lameness could be 
seen. Scarcely, however, had five minutes elapsed under ex¬ 
ertion, when the lameness was observed commencing in the 
near fore leg, which, though at first trifling, so rapidly increased, 
that at the end of thirteen or fourteen minutes the near fore foot 
refused to take its bearing upon the ground. Carried in the 
manner it was, the limb seemed to be too long for the body, and 
consequently was dragged along the ground. In this condition 
the horse was stopped; scarcely, however, had this been done, 
when, as before, he fell down in the shafts, out of which he was 
taken, and led, hopping upon three legs, into his stable. Here 
his respiration became agitated; and his countenance manifested 
sharpness, evincing uneasiness and pain. Shortly after he broke 
out into a sweat, and commenced stamping and drawing up 
his neck, as though he felt acute abdominal pains. In fact, he 
was like a horse suffering from gripes; though in all his various 
movements his halting limb was dragged along the ground. 
Within the space of twenty minutes the animal was up and 
down fifteen times. The pulse was intermittent, strong, and 
100 in a minute. 
There was one very remarkable symptom, which was, that 
while other parts of the body and the other three limbs were 
hot and streaming with sweat, the lame member had become 
dry and cold: indeed, to the feel of the hand the sense of cold 
was most perceptible. 
In about twenty minutes these symptoms subsided, and the 
