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animal out of the stall, which is some six inches above the floor, 
she made a misstep and knuckled over on her nigh hind foot; then 
in her attempt to regain her feet she slipped, and then in trying 
it again she slipped a third time, spreading her legs apart, and 
was unable to get up. She was dragged into her stall, where she 
soon became covered with a profuse perspiration and was in much 
pain. 
When she was seen she was suffering intensely, and on man¬ 
ipulation of the near hind leg an excess of motion was found at 
the superior extremity of the thigh, but owing to the mass of 
muscles crepitation was imperfectly detected. A diagnosis of 
fracture of the superior part of the leg was made, and the animal 
ordered destroyed. She died, however, before it was done. 
Post mortem examination revealed a comminuted fracture of the 
pelvis in the left side. The neck of the ilium was transversely 
fractured, the external border of the obturatur foramen broken 
off, the cotyloid cavity shattered into pieces of various sizes, and 
in fact there was a complete smash of all the pelvic bones. 
The examination also revealed that both the articular head of 
the femur and the surface of the acetabulum were affected with 
extensive ulcerations, the articular cartilage on both being destroyed 
in three different places. Will not this diseased condition of the 
bones explain, or at least furnish a practical explanation for such 
a complete shattering of the bone, and especially when oeeuring 
in such a young animal, the mare being only seven ? 
CARTILAGINOUS QUITTOR—REMOVAL OF THE LATERAL CARTILAGE. 
In reporting this case for the Review I do so not because it 
is an unusual case to come under the veterinary surgeon’s care. In 
fact it is a complication very often met with in city practice, and 
is not generally looked upon as being very desirable to have in 
charge, but because I wish to place before the readers of the Review 
the description of an operation which is not generally performed 
by the American practitioner and in fact is comparatively seldom 
if ever performed by English practitioners in the United States. 
Another point to which I wish to call attention, is the brief 
