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History .—The pony was a “ shan,” about sixteen years of age, 
and had been in his late owner’s possession for about eight years, 
during which time he had been remarkably free from lameness. 
Recently he had been doing very light work, as he was looked 
upon as an old friend. His only labor consisted in being driven 
to the bazaar, a distance of about three miles, every morning, in 
a light cart, by the owner’s butler. I have known the animal for 
more than three years, and the only occasion on which he re¬ 
quired medical attention was about four months ago, when he 
was pricked in shoeing; but he soon recovered and was again 
driven to market, as usual, every day. 
My first inquiry, on meeting the gentleman who drove him 
yesterday morning, was as to whether he had, in driving, struck 
the pony or caused him to make any sudden forward movement. 
But he assures me that he did nothing to frighten or excite him. 
He says he was trotting slowly along, and that for the first half 
of his journey the animal seemed free and anxious to go, but that 
after a while he thought he seemed lazy and inclined to slacken 
his speed. Soon afterwards the pony stopped altogether, and 
the driver, “ thinking that something was wrong with a portion 
of the harness, or that a stone had got fixed in the foot,” ordered 
the syce to dismount and examine the harness and feet. On the 
syce reporting that all was right, the pony was again urged for¬ 
ward ; but, from the peculiarity of the action, which now became 
a limp, the owner dismounted and found matters as stated in the 
first part of this paper. 
A description of the morbid condition of the parts, examined 
twenty-four hours after death, may interest your readers, and in 
hopes that such may be the case I give the appearances of each 
limb separately. 
Left front limb .—On removing the skin from the knee to the 
foot, I find considerable infiltration into the connective tissue, 
from a little below the knee to the coronet. This is owing to rup¬ 
ture of some of the small blood-vessels. On removing the areolar 
tissue, I find the perforatus tendon slightly lacerated in the im¬ 
mediate neighborhood of the joint. 
The perforans tendon is almost completely lacerated at the 
