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injury, the next day I asked the opinion of another veterinary 
surgeon, who also thought that the symptoms of fracture 
were not sufficiently marked to warrant the animal being 
forthwith destroyed; and consequently he advised a few days* 
respite, in order that something more definite might be 
developed. To keep the mare as much at rest as possible I had 
her placed in slings, where she remained a few days, but on 
each succeeding day I became more confirmed in my original 
opinion. In consequence of this she was destroyed, when 
I found that there was a perpendicular fracture of the 
scaphoid bone, the dissolution of continuity extending from 
the centre of the superior surface, obliquely downwards to 
the posterior part of the inferior surface. 
The general appearance of the joint was such as to indicate 
that ossific depositions to a large extent would ultimately 
take place, even if the fractured bone should be united. The 
cure, under these circumstances, must necessarily have been 
effected at the expense of a £e stiff knee in fact, so convinced 
was I during the animal’s life that a change of structure 
was going on which would result in anchylosis, that I should 
have had the mare destroyed sooner had she been mine. 
As this case is one of not common occurrence, I have had 
the parts dissected and preserved as a wet preparation, and 
have sent you this short description of it for publication in 
the Veterinarian . 
URETHRAL CALCULUS IN A FOAL, TEN WEEKS 
OLD. 
By T. B. Sharman, M.R.C.V.S., Old Leake. 
On the 10th of July last I wag* requested by Mr. C. 
Richardson, of this place, to attend a foal belonging to him, 
which, as he said, could not stale. On my arrival I found 
my patient recumbent, and evidently labouring under a great 
amount of pain; the visible mucous membranes were highly 
congested, and the countenance much haggard and depressed. 
On making the animal rise, he was observed to walk with a 
straggling gait and to make frequent attempts to urinate, but 
no fluid escaped. The penis, also, was protruding from the 
sheath in a pendulous and flaccid condition. 
On examining the penis I found, much to my surprise, that 
a calculus was situated in the urethra, about five inches from the 
end of the canal, and which, by gentle manipulation, 1 brought 
