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enough ! ” Prof. McE. at the time forgetting that things are 
done on a large scale in this country. So we retraced our steps, 
but, I am sorry to say, not in military order ; but managed to 
arrange with an Israelite in whom there was no guile for a 
certain red cow, for which Prof. McE. paid full value. The 
animal was not large, but the lungs were heavy enough for the 
money, and the pathological condition conclusive evidence of 
our diagnosis, and afforded splendid specimens for both Montreal 
and Philadelphia. 
Upon these facts Prof. McEachran based his report so far as 
this State is concerned, which report has given rise to this contro¬ 
versy. 
Yours Respectfully, 
D. McLean, Y. S., 
Brooklyn, August 19, 1879. 
To the Editor of the American Veterinary Review : 
Dear Sir: —The accompanying specimen was taken from the 
hind foot of a mule about twelve years of age, that was injured 
in the posterior part of the fetlock joint while running away with 
a field harrow about five years ago. The wound readily healed, 
but left a stiff joint at the first inter-phalangeal articulation. This 
gradually extended until the metacarpo-phalangeal and the second 
inter-phalangeal (or articulations of the foot) became also involved, 
and the flexor tendons becoming contracted caused the animal to 
stand and walk upon the anterior face and toe of the foot. Comi 
plete anchylosis of the whole fetlock and foot soon followed, 
and, for three years, the animal worked and drove upon the road 
with apparently very little inconvenience therefrom. Gradually, 
however, the metacarpo-phalangeal articulation grew more and 
more crooked, until finally the weight of the animal upon this 
limb brought the whole anterior portion of that articulation, as 
well as that of the suffragina and the anterior face of the coro¬ 
net and hoof, in contact with the ground. For about a year past 
it has walked in that position. There being nothing to wear the 
