REPORTS OF CASES 
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Aug. 2,5th .—Pulse and temperature normal. Dressed the 
wound with solution of chloride of zinc and pulverized Fuller’s 
earth; no bandage. Walked from stable and showed no lameness; 
was put to grass for two weeks, then went to work, and worked 
without lameness until June, 1880, when she died with colic. I 
obtained the hock for dissection, found all the small bones anchy- 
losed together and to the head of the metatarsal bone. 
Case No. 4. 
May 12 th, 1880.—Large brown mare, worked on a farm in 
Adamsville, belonged to Mr. Holden. I had fired the mare twice, 
two years before; she continued to go lame and had been a year 
before I fired her. Operated on her as in the other three cases. 
May l^th .—Dressed as before ; treatment as in case No. I 
and 3; in a week was turned out, and was not lame; in two 
weeks was led home and put to work for three months or more ; 
went sound and was traded. 
Another One. 
The animal was given me to destroy and I operated 
on the hock. She was an old mare, had been fired and blistered 
but always went lame; had been so for four or five years; worked 
on a farm very well. I operated on and dressed as in the rest of 
the cases. I had swelling on the second day and then I treated as 
in case No. 2. Finally synovitis set in. I kept her 12 days and 
then destroyed her. On dissecting the hock, I found as in case 2, 
ulcerations on the articular surface, and the small bones were not 
anchylosed together. 
I have examined quite a number of hocks which I have ob¬ 
tained from the dead yard, and have found that in those with 
large deposits on the lower portion and situated well over the in¬ 
side, we are more apt to have the small bones anchylosed than in 
those that are more forward, and that in hocks having large de 
posits on them we will quite often find the branch of the tendon 
pushed from its normal oblique course upwards in such a way 
that it has the appearance of running in a circular direction from 
its attachment to the bifurcation. If any one will take the 
trouble to dissect a few hocks, or to examine some that have been 
