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A. LIAUTARD. 
December 1st.—This abscess lias ulcerated, and a long probe 
fails to reach the bottom. A free opening is made to allow the 
pus to escape. 
December 3d.—Swelling less—discharge diminishing. 
December 5th.—No more dressing with bandage is applied 
upon the tail; the wounds dressed with carbolic solution. 
6th, 7th and 8th.—Continues to improve and is discharged 
December 12th—all the abscesses healed, but the tail rough, 
crooked and deprived of hair, from about two inches from its root 
to its end—almost too short to allow amputation. 
Luxations in our large domestic animals are not very common, 
with the exception of a few joints, unless they are accompanied with 
other lesions than those properly belonging to those affections. 
The powerful means of union of the articulations in horses, and 
the powerful support that some joints receive from the surround¬ 
ing muscles, may account for this. There are, however, some 
joints where the practitioner may meet with the displacement of 
the articular surface, while again there are some where they are 
almost unknown. M. H. Bouley, in his article on luxation of the 
tarsal articulations, says in the twelfth volume of the Dictionnaire 
Practique de Medecine , Chirurgie et Hygiene Velerinaire : “ There 
is not, in veterinary surgery, a good observation of that luxation; 
in fact, it cannot be but a most exceptional accident, on account 
of the extreme solidity of the means of union and the deep adap¬ 
tation of the articular surfaces. At any rate, if it takes place, it 
must necessarily be accompanied with fracture of the bony edges, 
laceration of skin, etc.—all lesions too serious to justify an 
attempt at treatment.” We publish to-day, with all reserve, how¬ 
ever, the report of an injury of that kind successfully treated, 
and in which the recovery took place within twenty-one days 
from the time of the accident. 
COMPLETE LUXATION OF THE TIBIO-TARSAL ARTICULATION- 
RECOVERY. 
By W. H. Wray, D.V.S. 
On January 15th, 1883, about 4 p. m., a valuable team, the 
property of Hon. N. P. Otis, became frightened at some boys who 
