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had got loose the night before and perhaps had been tapped by 
another horse, the author prescribed the ordinary treatment used 
for the lameness behind, and two days after the hofse was nearly 
sound behind but yet a little stiff in front. In a few days more 
he was ordered to work, but on the sixth day the reporter was 
called in a hurry and found the animal disabled, with a well 
marked case of fracture on the foreleg, for which he was de¬ 
stroyed. The fragments of the bone, which were denticulated 
and well fitting together, and the form of the fracture indicated 
why the displacement occurred only six days after the injury. 
Moral: never neglect inquiry as to a cause of lameness, espe¬ 
cially with the history that it may be due to tapping from 
another horse. . . . Another no less interesting case is re¬ 
corded by Mr. C. A Legnair, which, however, did not have as 
fatal result. During operation for the removal of a large scir- 
rhus cord, while the horse, secured down, was struggling, a re¬ 
port similar to the discharge of a pistol was heard and an assis¬ 
tant exclaimed that the near foreleg of the horse was broken. 
Notwithstanding, the operation was completed, and the horse 
attempted to get up. He was brought to his stable, where he 
went away apparently sound. The horse did not lie down for 
some time. A fortnight later, when Mr. S. saw his patient, his 
attention was called to a swelling on the near fore arm about 
the middle of the radius. Brought to the evidence of some¬ 
thing serious, strict directions were given not to move the horse 
out of the stall until further orders, which were not o-iven for 
two months. The animal has since done good work, u hale 
and hearty,” but with a swelling on the near fore arm. . . . 
But what if the horse had laid down ? 
Bryony Poisoning [ By A. S. Anger]. —Finding no record 
of similar nature in any literature, the author published this inter¬ 
esting history of seven horses out of a stable of thirteen animals 
affected with the same symptoms : general stiffness with peculiar 
gait resembling that of laminitis, yet no throbbing at the 
plantar artery; stiffness more particularly affecting the 
muscles of the loins—this was more marked in one mare, which, 
“ when made to get up, sat upon her buttocks, and so stiff were 
her loins that her fore feet were poised in the air for a minute or 
more as she tried to grip the ground. When standing she was 
like a semi-paralyzed animal pulse 84, temperature slightly 
elevated, no injection of the mucous membrane, appetite good.” 
O11 inquiry as to the cause of the owner, it was learned that 
the animals had eaten a considerable quantity of the bryonict 
