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This swelling involved the whole or only part of the organ. In 
some it was limited to the branches of bifurcation, or even to 
one only ; sometimes the ligament was three times its size. We 
believe that in one-third of those animals the diagnosis could 
have been established during life by careful examination. 
It is evident that a practitioner called to give his opinion 
might have diagnosed them in many cases as chronic sprains or 
distensions of ligaments. We made that error many times 
ourselves. And yet in all our 43 cases of filariosis that we 
have examined we have never found lesions belonging to sprains 
or distensions. 
Such facts make one think. And we cannot ignore those 
statistics which have established such relation between the fre¬ 
quency of sprain of the tendons proper and the enlargement, the 
distension of the suspensory ligament. Truly, we do not deny 
this ; it is an accident that may occur; cases of rupture at the 
two bifurcations are recorded; but we believe that outside of acute 
accidental or traumatic cases, one must be very guarded in his 
diagnosis, and the question may always be asked to what ex¬ 
tent can a primitive lesion of the tendon contribute to its giving 
away. 
If, now, we consider the influence that the parasitic condition 
of the ligament can have upon the tendons and the fetlock ap¬ 
paratus, the question is less clear, although the influence cannot 
be doubted. Although the number of our observations is lim¬ 
ited, we will nevertheless take them for basis. 
By our table of statistics we find that in every one of our 
forty-three subjects, where the suspensory ligaments were more 
or less parasitic, five only had sprained tendon, more or less 
serious. In the five, it was the perforatus ; in one both flexors 
were affected. 
A fact to remark is, that in all five, neither the carpal nor 
tarsal sheaths were affected. 
This seems to prove that lesion of the suspensory ligament 
does not necessarily imply disease of the tendons. 
t It is also to be remarked that it is always the perforatus 
