AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
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About three weeks after the accident, Dr. Liautard was called, 
id upon examination detected crepitation, hut owing to the great 
yelling of the parts was unable to tell positively whether it pre¬ 
ceded from the friction of the paletta upon the femur, or 
•om a true fracture, yet the latter was strongly suspected. The 
wner not wishing to have the animal destroyed, thought that he 
light be able to use her for breeding purposes, as she was quite 
aluable, and by advice had her sent to the college in an atnbu- 
tnce on March 25. She was immediately placed in slings, as 
le refused to bear even the slightest weight upon the affected 
mb. Here she would hang for hours at-a time in a limp condi- 
on resting the now overworked leg. The treatment employed 
'as simple, the parts being sponged with cold water several times 
day to remove the discharge which poured down the leg, de- 
uding it of hair and causing great irritation. Bed sores now 
lade their appearance wherever any portion of the slings came 
l contact with the animal’s body. Bodily temperature was nor- 
lal, but appetite was capricious. The owner’s consent was now 
ought in regard to her destruction as a worthless and incurable 
nimal, and after some time was granted. She was accordingly 
estroyed on April 8. 
Post-mortem appearances were as follows: On making an in- 
ision over the inferior extremity of the femur an abscess was 
truck containing nearly two quarts of laudable pus. Another 
7as found situated deeper in the structure of the muscular tissue, 
lid extending down to the articulation, and tilled with pus sim- 
lar to that discharged through the external openings, being of a 
; suppurative synovial ” character. On a deeper incision the 
:uife came in contact with fragments of bone, one of which, 
arger than the others, proved to be the internal lip of the trochlea 
f the femur. The roughened edges of the fractured portion, as 
veil as the base of the trochlea, had been nearly removed by ab- 
urption. The appearances presented by the bones outside of the 
j rticulation was as follows: Provisional cicatrix extending all 
round the inferior extremity of the femur, and extending up¬ 
wards about five inches, and downwards, involving the superior 
xtremity uf the tibia, especially the external and internal tube 
