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sixty days from the date of admission I sent him home all right 
in every way except that the gluteal muscles were still slightly 
atrophied; but I had an opportunity of seeing him again m 
about six weeks, and at that time they were entirely filled 
out and had regained their natural appearance. 
The other case I saw was during our race-meeting in July, 
1891, and occurred in a seven-year-old trotting gelding, re¬ 
cord 2.22He started in a race on Thursday, winning two 
heats, when darkness came, and the race was postponed. The 
next day he came out all right, but in scoring down for the 
first heat, he went suddenly lame in near hind leg, so lame 
that it was difficult to get him to his stall. He presented the 
same symptoms in general that the other horse did, but not 
nearly so severe. I treated him the same as my first case, 
and in about a week he was sufficiently recovered to be 
shipped home. 
NAVICULAR DISEASE. 
By W. Bryden, V.S. 
(Paper read at a meeting of the Massachusetts Veterinary Medical Association, 
February 24, 1892). 
This article was intended for the meeting of our Alumni 
Association, at Montreal, which was unavoidably postponed. 
With your indulgence, 1 will present to you a short contri. 
bution on one of the diseases peculiar to the locomotive or¬ 
gans of the horse, Navicular Disease. 
Prof. Dick says, “ By high authority it has been called 
the curse upon all good horse flesh (though in passing we remark 
it is rather the infliction of man than of any higher power).” 
He then asks, after fairly and generously quoting the opinions 
of Mr. Turner, Mr. Percival and others, “Why then appear 
to differ when substantially we agree ? Not that we are here 
arguing for concession which will compromise the truth ; but 
we hold that the united, persevering ingenuity of scientific 
men has fully illustrated this disease ; that it has predispos¬ 
ing causes, such as want of paring, shoeing, and still more, 
bad shoeing, hereditary tendency of particular breeds, and 
