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I recommended that the animal be destroyed, and on making a 
post-mortem examination of the limb, I found both fracture of the 
sesamoids and rupture of the suspensory ligament. 
Fracture of the sesamoid bones of the front limbs is not a rare 
occurrence in India, but I do not remember to have heard of a 
case in which the sesamoids of all four legs became involved at 
the same time. 
Horses, when they are very fresh and succeed in breaking 
loose, are liable to injuries of this nature, especially if they jump 
fences when the ground is very hard ; but I think few cases occur 
under similar circumstances to those narrated in this instance. 
The case of fracture mentioned as having happened to the five- 
year-old pony took place during the monsoon, when the ground 
was soft and elastic.— Veterinary Journal. 
SERIOUS INJURY TO A HORSE: RECOVERY. 
By C. Cresswell, M.R.C.V.S., Nottingham. 
On April 25th a bay six-year-old cart mare, in good condition, 
belonging to W. Collison, Esq., of Nottingham, in galloping away 
broke down the closed gates of a railway crossing, and came in 
contact with a passing train going at the rate of about twenty- 
five miles an hour. On examination one hour afterwards, I found 
the following lesions: A transverse fracture of the frontal bones 
throughout their whole breadth, two inches of the orbital process 
of the left frontal bone being detached. The malar ridge 
on the left side was broken transversely in two distinct parts. 
The inferior portion of the orbit, comprising the lachrymal bone, 
portions of the superior maxillary, and the malar, was fractured 
in many places, and portions detached. The inferior maxillary 
was broken at the neck, two inches below the joint, and the jaw 
consequently movable in any direction. On taking away por¬ 
tions of the detached bone, the parietal was found to have a lon¬ 
gitudinal fracture, causing a fissure one-eighth of an inch wide, 
through which the cerebral membranes were visible. The eye 
was of course invisible, and the jugular vein on the same side was 
