REPORTS OF CASES. 
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accidental tenotomy, with laceration of the suspen¬ 
sory LIGAMENT AS A COMPLICATION. 
By Robert W. Eeeis,. D.V.S., New York. 
On November 16th, 1900, about 4 p. m., I was called to see a 
high-lifed, trot ting-bred, bay “ cob ” mare, eight years old, on 
the street, supposed by the police officers and onlookers to have 
sustained a fracture. I found upon manipulation of the region 
of the pastern of the off hind leg, which was bearing no weight, 
that there was no resistance when the toe was raised forward and 
upward ; and upon causing the animal to place weight upon the 
limb, the point of the fetlock descended to the ground and the 
toe of the foot pointed toward the abdomen. A diagnosis of 
laceration of the suspensory ligament was given, and a guarded 
although not hopeless prognosis. The history of the case was 
simply that the mare had become frightened at a combination 
of noises, caused by a heavy truck going rapidly over the pav¬ 
ing stones and electric cars passing, while standing up to the 
curb, attached to a “ runabout, ” the owner and driver, a lady, 
being in the carriage, holding the reins, accompanied by a man¬ 
servant, who was not a horseman. The mare suddenly whirled 
around short, and before the lady could get control of her, 
turned the carriage partly over, throwing its occupants upon 
the street. The mare ran about two blocks, over a sort of tri¬ 
angular course, coming almost to a halt at the end of the first 
block, by being confronted by a fence ; she turned and ran about 
a block in another direction, and was caught, being thrown in 
the catching, and was held down until freed from the harness 
and wagon by the bystanders. At no time during her attempt 
to get away did she manage to get up any amount of speed, the 
distances being too short. So that there was nothing in the his¬ 
tory to account for so extensive an injury to the suspensory as 
existed, the mare being in good condition, and in harness every 
day. u The knife ” was evidently used freely in liberating her, 
judgingfrom the condition of the harness. Among other things, 
one of the stout traces was severed by a sharp blade. On recog¬ 
nizing the mare’s condition, a roll of absorbent cotton was placed 
about the leg, and a temporary suspensory bandage placed firmly 
over it, and the mare led slowly to a stable six blocks distant, 
when a long starch bandage was placed over the absorbent cot¬ 
ton, and the mare allowed to lie down, it being thought inad¬ 
visable to “sling” her, in her nervous condition. The next 
day she was placed in slings, and the bandages and cotton re- 
