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hip-joint considerably injured, and recommended him to 
have the horse destroyed. At his request I shot the animal, 
and afterwards examined the pelvis, which I have preserved 
in my pharmacy. I found the ilium fractured through its 
middle narrowest part. This had reunited, but it caused a 
shortening of the bone to the extent of about an inch, and 
considerable convexity of its dorsal surface. The acetabulum 
was fractured in three places, and the ischium broken right 
through close to the hip-joint. Displacement had taken 
place in this latter fracture, and no attempt at union was 
apparent. Of course the horse would never have been of 
any use had he been allowed to live; and though his de¬ 
struction caused a loss of j£ 80 to the owner, still it was the 
only thing a veterinary surgeon would have been justified in 
recommending under such circumstances. 
I send you an account of the case, because I think it is 
seldom we meet with such very extensive injury arising from 
a mere fall backwards, and on level soft ground too. 
No. 2.—Fracture of the Humerus. 
The surgeon of my regiment sent for me suddenly some 
evenings ago, with a request that I would go over to his 
house “ sharp/ 5 On arrival I found that his buggy-horse, a 
large animal of the New South Wales breed, had, while 
standing at the door harnessed in the buggy, become 
alarmed at something and ran away. The horse had made 
for a six-foot mud wall in front of him, with the intention of 
galloping through a gap in it, which was only large enough 
to allow a man to pass; the consequence was that he came 
at full speed with his near shoulder against the wall, knock¬ 
ing it down and rolling over sideways, buggy and all. The 
buggy was, of course, considerably smashed. I found the 
horse up, but standing on three legs, the near fore hanging 
helplessly in the air. On examining this limb, the animal 
objected strongly to my touching his shoulder or elbow; and 
upon my manipulating the part, and listening while the 
owner pulled the leg outwards and downwards, I distinctly 
heard crepitus just above the elbow, and could feel the 
broken bone move. 1 told Dr. -it was an unquestionable 
case of fracture of the humerus, and he asked me to shoot the 
horse, which I did at once. 
The post-mortem examination revealed an extensive 
compound fracture of the humerus just above the elbow- 
joint. 
Is it not somewhat strange that the animal’s coming up 
