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which was as follows: The present owner had had the horse 
about one month, having bought him for a fast road horse, for 
eight hundred dollars, having got a record of about 2:40. About 
ten days before the day I was called, he started for his usual 
drive, when, on leaving the stable, he found the horse went 
slightly lame, j .e drove for three or four miles, when he got so 
dead lame that he was left at the first stable that could be 
reached; some liniment was got and applied to the parts that 
seemed affected, and in about a week the owner found him so 
much better that he told them at the stable to turn him out. They 
did so, and as soon as he reached the grass the horse got down 
and had a good roll, and when he went to get up he had diffi¬ 
culty in doing so, and when up was on three legs. After review- 
ins the historv and a further examination, I came to the cpnclu- 
sion that there was either an incomplete fracture of the sub- 
trochanterian crests of the femur, or a laceration of some of its 
attachments, which of the two I could not satisfy myself, and so 
informed the owner, stating at the same time the treatment in 
either case would be the same, viz.: perfect rest of the parts, and 
blistering. I was instructed to treat the case as I thought best. I 
at once secured a sling, into which I put the horse, applied a 
cantharidis blister, and left him, after giving instructions as to 
management. Everything was apparently going along all right, 
when, on the 14th, I received a telephone message to come at 
once, as the horse had got down, and his leg was broken ; I at 
once went there and found him slung all right, but his leg was 
broken sure; the inferior extremity of the tibia was badly 
fractured. I at once destroyed the horse and took advantage of 
the circumstances—unfortunate or otherwise—to satisfy myself 
as to the exact original injury. I made a careful incision along 
the line of the femur carefully laying back each muscle as I cut 
through it, I arrived down to the external face of that bone; it ap¬ 
peared to be all right, and so with its third trochanter, but 
I noticed there was a dark coloration just behind it, and on further 
dissection found there had been considerable hemorrhage, there 
being large ante-mortem clots. I inserted my finger into the mus¬ 
cle attached, and found it tore very easily. I dissected still fur- 
