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ABSTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
FRACTURES OF THE FLOOR OF THE PELVIS. 
Mr. Nocard reports two cases of this kind of fracture. 
The lameness accompanying these accidents is very characteristic. 
In standing, the left hind leg is carried forward, resting on the toe ; 
in walking the animal is very lame, his lameness being so peculiar that 
the leg seems to move all in one piece, and carried with a circular 
adductory motion. The conclusions of the paper are 1st, the floor of 
the pelvis can be the seat of comminutive fracture, involving the pubis 
and ischium where they are the least resisting, viz., in front and 
behind the obturator foramen. 2d. This fracture will unite quick, the 
ends of the bones being kept close together by ligamentous and 
muscular supports. 3d. Constantly, the cal of repairing process, presses 
atrophies and destroys the obturator, pelvi crural and'posterior crural 
nerves which run through the framen ovale, or pass in its neighbor¬ 
hood; hence paralysis, atrophy and degeneration of the flexor muscles 
of the leg and adductors of the leg. 4th. There remains a lameness 
which renders the animal unfit for work. 5th. This lameness is charac¬ 
teristic, and alone can induce to suspect the existence of the lesion. 
6th. Rectal examination will, with certainty, establish the diagnosis 
and prognosis of the fracture. (Archives Vet.) 
RHEUMATISMAL LAMENESS. 
This lameness may be said to follow one out of every ten cases of 
pneumonia, pleuresy, pericarditis, truly inflammatory, or typhoid, 
appearing generally during the convalescence; they sometimes show 
themselves later, over one hundred and eight days after the invasion 
of the disease. In 1869 a mare after an attack of typhoid disease 
showed a synovitis which affected successively three extremities and 
ended by locating itself on the left front fetlock. Blisters and firing 
failed in removing it, a large blister and mustard poultice on the chest 
in the cardiac region were followed by the removal of the lameness. 
This treatment repeated in eleven cases of rheumatismal lameness, 
proved generally successful. (Eecueil de Med. Vet.) 
