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FRACTURE OF BOTH HUMERI. 
On the following morning, Friday, she was again taken 
out, and went to the meet of the hounds. 1 should here re¬ 
mark that the bailiff instructed the breaker, on his leaving, 
not to keep her out long, indeed not beyond an hour or two, 
as she had not fed well during the night. These instructions, 
however, he failed to observe, and kept her out for several 
hours. Nothing, indeed, was heard of him until night, when 
a message was sent to say that the mare had fallen on the 
road, near Rotherham, and was unable to rise. On receipt 
of this information the bailiff immediately w^ent, and found 
the poor creature in the most deplorable condition possible, 
a covering of straw and rugs was provided for the night, 
and an occasional restorative administered. 
On the following, Saturday, morning 1 was requested to see 
the mare, w'hen I found her completely prostrated. The 
circulation was accelerated and feeble ; the mucous mem¬ 
branes highly injected; but the eye itself remarkably bright. 
She had urinated, and a small quantity of feculent matter 
had been voided during the night. The limbs were reported 
to be useless, which I found to be too true, the anterior ones 
being especially so, and much worse than the posterior. My 
first impression was that injury had been done to the spine, 
causing this paralysis, for the position the mare was in 
prevented my making a full examination. 
I had her carefully placed on a large door, and this put on 
a hurry and drawn home by a horse. It was reported to 
me that on the way home she never moved a limb, for I could 
not stop to see her conveyed home, having a long journey 
of upwards of forty miles before me. Instructions were 
given for her treatment, which consisted in the applica¬ 
tion of a counter-irritant to the spine, and the exhibition of a 
little aperient medicine, with gruel and diffusible stimulants. 
I saw her again on my return home in the evening, when 
she appeared somewhat easier. 
On Sunday the counter-irritant was repeated, and a liberal 
supply of gruel given, which she drank freely. Similar treat¬ 
ment was continued for a day or two; but there being no im¬ 
provement which would warrant us keeping her any longer, 
I considered the most prudent course would be to destroy 
her, which was accordingly done. 
Post-mortem examination .—On removing the integument 
nothing unusual presented itself until the butcher came to the 
shoulders, when an assistant, raising one of the legs, remarked 
that he thought it was broken. It was examined by several 
persons present, all of whom concluded that it was broken. It 
was then left until my arrival. I cut down upon the fracture. 
