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DROPPED ELBOW ” IN THE HORSE. 
Then, in one night, he made a decided gain, and that day I 
blistered the region of the extensors of the forearm and antea 
and postea spiratns muscles. Improvement was very rapid, so 
that about the fourth day after the blister was applied the limb 
was carried to its normal position at times. 
During the next two weeks he came to walk almost sound, 
and is now enjoying a season at psture, though when I last saw 
him the hollow described was still persisting. 
Diagnosis .—I believed there was a rupture of the long ex¬ 
tensor of the forearm. Others, as will be seen,.sought a differ¬ 
ent explanation. 
I invited two brother practitioners to inspect the case, and 
their impressions they have been kind enough to give herewith. 
I would be much interested to hear from any others, what 
they think may have taken place to cause so suddenly, such 
grave symptoms, and after so long a time such sudden improve¬ 
ment. 
SOME INTERESTING EXPERIENCES WITH THIS AND KINDRED 
AFFECTIONS. 
By Geo. H. Berns, D.V. S., Brooklyn. 
The case of dropped elbow reported by Dr. E. Hanshew, Jr., 
in this issue, which, through the courtesy of Dr. H., I had the 
privilege of .seeing, is of more than ordinary interest to me, by 
reason of the fact that I have seen a number of cases of a sim¬ 
ilar character in both front and hind extremities during the 
past eighteen years, some of which were destroyed and^post- 
mortem examinations made, while others were allowed to live 
and got well. 
^ In 1880, my second year in practice, four cases of “dropped 
point of hock ” in heavy draft horses came under my observa¬ 
tion, all of which were due to accidental causes and presented 
the following symptoms : while in a perfect state of rest nothing 
particularly abnormal could be detected, but the moment the 
patient was made to move and place weight upon the affected 
limb, the thigh would become enormously elongated, the meta¬ 
tarsus would bear upon the tibia, and the point of the hock 
(summit of os calcis) would drop to within five or six inches of 
the floor. These cases were diagnosed as “ rupture of the gas¬ 
trocnemius muscle,” and, as recovery seemed impossible, the 
first three cases were destroyed ; and in two cases in which 
post-mortems were made, the diagnosis was fully confirmed. 
The fourth case, which, in addition to all the .symptoms above 
