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his foot does not rest on tho ground, but is constantly moving 
forward under the influence of frequent lancinating pains. Pres¬ 
sure at the coronet, on a level with the quarters, seems to give 
rise to a great deal of pain, more manifest when the foot is rotated 
or carried in excessive extension or flexion. A diagnosis is made 
of fracture of the os pedis. On account of complications taking 
place, the animal is destroyed. On post-mortem, the navicular 
bone is found fractured in several pieces and seems to be float¬ 
ing in a large hemorrhagic center. The tendon of the flexor 
perforans is ruptured, as well as the posterior ligaments of the 
articulation of the os pedis, there is a sanious synovitis of the 
small sesamoideal sheath. As there was no external lesion on the 
plantar surface of the foot, one is justified in attributing the 
cause of the injury to powerful muscular contraction .—Annciles 
de Bruxelles. 
TRAUMATIC TETANUS—NEUROTOMY—RECO VERY. , 
By M. Jacotin and Henryon. 
A female donkey, aged 20 years, received the 25th of Decem¬ 
ber, 1882, a wound on the outside of the right hind fetlock, which 
up to the 20th of January, 1883, has not interfered with her 
work. On the 24th she manifested some rigidity of the muscles 
of mastication, has difficulty in taking her food, and shows the 
evident symptoms of lockjaw. She has trismus, protrusion of 
the membranaa nictitans, opisthotonos and rigidity of all the 
muscles of the legs. She is very irritable, and moves with great 
difficulty. The wound of the fetlock is of a dark red, soiled with 
mud, and is evidently the starting point of this well characterized 
case of tetanus. The treatment consisted in the operation of 
plantar neurotomy upon the external^ plantar nerve, and deep 
cauterization with the iron of the wound of the fetlock. A slight 
improvement was observed on the next day. On the 30th of Jan¬ 
uary the walking is better, legs less stiff, the jaws moving a little 
better. The wound goes rapidly on towards cicatization. On 
the 1st of February the animal is gay, her appetite normal, move¬ 
ments much improved; the next day she is discharged, convales¬ 
cent. —A re hi ves Yeterinaires, 
