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THE TREATMENT OF LAMENESS DUE TO EMBOLISM. 
By Mr. Collin. 
The author insists upon absolute rest as the best treatment in 
cases of embolism, and as an evidence, mentions a case where the 
arterial lesions existed in the ramification of the posterior aorta; 
though the result was not as entirely satisfactory as it might have 
been, the animal having been destroyed. 
The subject was a mare, which after having wintered to the 
23d of February, 1880, was put to work on that day, and after 
half an hour was suddenly taken lame in the left hind leg. 
When returned to the stable she dropped down, and after several 
hours was found apparently perfectly well. Three days after, she 
was put to work again, with the return of the same symptoms and 
the general manifestations accompanying embolisms. Mr. Collin 
being then called, several hours afterwards put the animal to 
exercise and the lameness returned after a few minutes. The 
diagnosis of embolism being made, the following treatment was 
ordered : daily exercise of an hour first, to be gradually increased, 
dry friction over the hind parts of the animal. Improvement 
soon became manifest, and a month later the animal was able to 
work for three or four hours in succession. For some reason, 
however, the mare, after the 1st of June, was allowed to remain 
in. the stable for twenty-eight days without working, and when 
she was put in harness the lameness returned in a short time, as 
bad as ever. She was then destroyed, and at the post mortem 
the posterior aorta and the external iliacs were found diseased, and 
Containing clots of blood, of a regular form, and loosely adherent 
to the external coat of the artery. The right iliac was entirely 
obliterated, the left most completely so. The femorals were also 
more or less obliterated. The clots in these blood vessels presented 
different degrees of organization, and in some resolution seemed to 
have been going on when the animal was under treatment, but 
whs stopped as soon as the animal was put to permanent imtno" 
bility .—Journal de Zootechnie. 
