AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
a heavy truck passing over the external coronary region of tha 
member. Two wounds were the result of the accident. One 
crescent shaped, extending from the heel to the toe, involved the 
large cartilage. The other corresponded to the quarter, am 
showed the perioplic band separated from the cutidura, the coro 
nary groove, the perioplic bourrelct and the origin of the podoph 
yllous tissue. The parts were congested and badly bruised, ye 
the animal showed relatively little lameness. The classic treat 
inent, viz., the thinning of the wall, was indicated, but as thi 
was about to be done, it occurred to the author to make trial o 
the application of cold water, as recently recommended by M 
Harsteinsten. Continued irrigation of the wound was undertake! 
and continued for the space of ten days. During the first thro 
days the lameness increased, but towards the fifth a notable iin 
provement was observed, and on the eighth it was all gone. Th 
superior wound became closed by degrees, the cicatrization pro 
gressed well, and in fifteen days the animal was returned to hi 
work.— Hec. de Med. Vet. 
AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
HOSPITAL EECORDS. 
By James Walrath, D.Y.S., House Surgeon. 
FRACTURE OF THE INTERNAL LIP OF THE TROCHLEA OF TH.1 
FEMUR. 
The subject of this article is a chestnut mare used for saddlj 
purposes. The history is rather incomplete, but as far as learned 
being about as follows: She was found one morning cast in he 
stall, and after being assisted to rise was found lame on the o: 
liind-leg. A practitioner was called, who diagnosed it stifle larrn 
ness, and ordered hot fomentations, which was kept up for som 
length of time, the animal in the meantime growing lamer an 
lamer, and the joint rapidly swelling, until fluctuation could b 
detected, when these abscesses broke and began discharging 
thick bloody pus, now and then streaked with a yellowish fluic 
similar to synovia. 
