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paris with long tick bandages was applied, supported by four steel 
splints, running upward in the long axis of the injured bone. He 
was then allowed to walk to his stall and placed in slings. The 
next day, everything being well in place, the apparatus was 
strengthened on the outside with three wound splints supporting 
the parts outward, inward and behind, they being kept in place 
by a snugly tied flannel bandage. 
On the 10th he seemed to have severe lancinating pains, but 
everything otherwise appeared normal, including temperature, 
pulse, respiration and appetite. 
The pain subsided during the following day. 
After a week’s treatment, however, the owner decided to give 
him up. He was allowed to remain in the stall up to the 28th 
of the month, when, preparatory to destroying him, he was walked 
into a box stall close to the operating room of the hospital, and 
let loose. 
On the 1st of May it was noticed that a slight change had 
taken place in the off fore leg, consisting in an expansion of the 
tendons passing behind the knee of that extremity. It was mani¬ 
fest on account of the greater amount of weight of the body 
thrown upon that leg. This condition continued gradually to in¬ 
crease, until on the 5th of May the parts presented a very pecu¬ 
liar appearance : the knee was bent forward in such a manner 
that there was an extreme concavity of the line, normally vertical, 
of that joint. Indeed, a plumb line dropping from the point of 
the shoulder and passing about 5f inches in front of the toe, 
showed the carpus to be about 19£ inches posterior to it. Such 
measurements can give an idea of the great change in the condi¬ 
tion of the part and of the expansion of the tendons. The ani¬ 
mal was then destroyed. 
On post mortem it was found that in the off fore leg the ten¬ 
dons were stretched to the utmost, and were in a bruised and dis¬ 
colored condition, presenting, however, no laceration or separation 
in their continuity. In the near leg, the muscles surrounding the 
radius being removed, the partially united fracture was exposed. 
It extended from the lower to the upper third of the bone, in the 
direction of the long axis of the radius. Process of union had 
