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At the end of that time the brace was re¬ 
moved, and the following illustrated shoe ap¬ 
plied. Five days after the application of this 
shoe she was removed from the slings and 
placed in a box-stall, bedded with saw-dust, 
to avoid tripping. The wounds were now 
entirely healed and the tendon united, but 
there persisted a very loose movement of the 
foot, below the pastern. It would be thrown, 
rather than placed forward, in very much the 
same manner that a man uses an artificial 
foot or limb. Stimulating liniment was now 
applied once or twice daily, and the leg snugly 
reinforced by an oakum bandage-boot, for 
nineteen days, at the expiration of which 
time, she was sent per ambulance to a model 
stock-farm at Glen Head, L,. I. Having pre¬ 
ceded her by rail, I was at the farm to see her 
arrive in good condition, and eight days later 
I visited her again at the farm, modified the elevated shoe, 
and blistered the region of the injury, and extending over 
the pastern joint, with the object of restoring, if possible, the 
function of the parts. This was repeated twenty-six days 
later; and six weeks later I again visited her, and ordered 
the daily application of liniment and a suspensory bandage 
returned to as before the blistering. The control of the 
foot was regained, slowly, but perceptibly, so that some time 
in May (probably five, months after the accident), on visiting 
the farm I had her hitched to a cart and drove her and 
was pleased to find her going absolutely sound (the owner hav- 
ing applied the same test and arrived at the same conclusion 
about a, week previously), and she has continued to do so to the 
present day, with no reason for doubting an indefinite continu¬ 
ance. In other words, the mare is as sound as before the accident, 
and is one of those pretty “ actors ” that one turns to look at so 
that any deviation of gait would be very noticeable. The con¬ 
formation of the leg is slightly changed, measuring slightly 
more from the front of the metatarso-phalangeal articulation to 
the back of the sesamoid region than the other leg. Not notice¬ 
able, however, to the casual observer. The very novel source 
of this accident, as I feel sure it must have occurred, there be¬ 
ing an uninterrupted union of the tendon ends, with no slough- 
ing of tissue, which could only take place in an incised wound 
